Multicultural Therapy Reflection

For second semester my goals fall predominantly under cultural diversity and application. In each area I have strengths and limitations. First of all, I am able to build rapport clients from different backgrounds. In my clinic site, I am open to see diverse clientele. My site serves a variety of persons having different cultural identifies such as low SES, LGBTQ, African Americans, Caucasians, Latinos, older adults and people with disability. I am working on demonstrating knowledge, awareness and understanding towards diverse clients.
The area I need to improve is scientific understanding of contextual factors in treatments and assessment of culturally diverse clients. This semester, I am taking the Advanced Multicultural Counseling Course. The
As I attended last semester, I will continue Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society meetings. Through those meetings, I can learn to be psychoanalytically minded even though I practice CBT or other therapies. This semester, I plan on being more involve with the society and consider of being their official student. This semester, I will learn following topics: the resolution of the transference in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, importance of the frame in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, when patient and therapist are of different race, religion, and ethnicity, mentalization in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
Another goal of mine is to prepare my clients for termination. At the very first of my sessions, I tell my client when I will leave the site and time-to-time, we touch on termination in sessions. Based on that fact, I will plan my sessions accordingly and help my clients get their needs met and facilitate their transition. I also need to prepare myself for termination. Since I am working with my clients on a long-term basis, ending the treatment will be harder for me. To handle the termination process, I will talk to my supervisor and