As a multicultural counselor, you must develop skills that support cross-cultural communication, critical thinking, analysis of a social identity, and how to minimize the impact of your personal biases and beliefs

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• Key questions to ask about your multicultural skills

  • How comfortable are you communicating across cultures?

  • When was the last time you interacted with someone of another culture?

  • Cultural Communication Skills (Link)

• Understand how to perform a cultural interview

  •  Culturally Responsive Assessment (Link)​

  • Cultural Formulation Interview (Link)

• Understand how to talk about race

  • So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo (Link)​

  • Communication Challenge:

    • ​Find a friend, supervisor, or trusted colleague and start a conversation about your privilege and marginalized status 

    • Explore their status and how the similarities and differences impact your relationship

• ​Critical Thinking Challenge

  • ​Write out how you define your identity.  Consider how this is reflected in your client population, and how your identity may overlap or be different from theirs.

    • Aspects of Identity Questionnaire (PDF)

    • Aspects of Identity Questionnaire (Online Quiz)

  • ​Consider how your identity impacts your practice and how you interact with clients.  Where could you be better?  Where are you strong today
• Understand your social identity at the Personal, Relational, Social, and Collective level
  • Consider how your identity impacts your practice and how you interact with clients.  Where could you be better?  Where are you strong today
  • Social Identity Theory (Video)
• Understand the stress and trauma that may come from being a member of a marginalized group
  • Stress and Trauma Toolkit (Link)