Cultural auditing to enhance reflective counseling practices with Indigenous families

Abstract Contemporary researchers in counseling consider cultural sensitivity and respectfulness as vital to developing a therapeutic working alliance. The author explores using a cultural audit to reflexively support cultural reflection, sensitivity, and respectfulness. A case example is used to pr...

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Published in:Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
Main Author: Boyer, Wanda
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12245
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Summary:Abstract Contemporary researchers in counseling consider cultural sensitivity and respectfulness as vital to developing a therapeutic working alliance. The author explores using a cultural audit to reflexively support cultural reflection, sensitivity, and respectfulness. A case example is used to present the cultural audit process in the client cultural context of a First Nations elder and grandfather. Implications are discussed, including cultural repertoire expansion of counselors and counseling practitioners via cultureā€infused therapeutic working alliances.