Ethical Issues Of Multicultural And Diversity In Counseling

First, ethical issue that involves multicultural and diversity is that the counselor needs to be precautious when providing a psychological assessment and test to the client. The counselor needs to make sure it is appropriate and it will not affect the client in any way. According to American Counseling Associated Code of Ethics states E.8, “Multicultural Issues/ Diversity in Assessment Counselors select and use with caution assessment techniques normed on populations other than that of the client. Counselors recognize the effects of age, color, culture, disability, ethnic group, gender, race, language preference, religion, spirituality, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status on test administration and interpretation, and they place test results in proper perspective with other relevant factors”. Therefore, before conducting a psychological assessment or test the counselor should make sure the test and assessment will do no harm to the client due to their own beliefs. This is a critical ethical issue that the counselor should be
The counselor should understand the cultural sensitivity of the client. It is important for the counselor to haven an understanding of the client cultural background in order to provide the proper psychological assessment and test. According to America Counseling Associated Code of Ethics E.5.b, “Cultural Sensitivity Counselors recognize that culture affects the manner in which clients’ problems are defined and experienced. Clients’ socioeconomic and cultural experiences are considered when diagnosing mental disorders”. So, the counselor should be aware of the clients cultural so it will not affect as they will be assessing and test. If the counselor finds something that is not correct before assessing it is important not to conduct the assessment or test. The counselor needs to be aware of the client’s personal assumptions, values and biases before conducting an assessment or