Cultural auditing to enhance reflective counseling practices with Indigenous families

• Published in: Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development
• Main Author: Boyer, Wanda
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2022
• Subjects: Applied Psychology; Cultural Studies; First Nations
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmcd.12245; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jmcd.12245; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/jmcd.12245

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 culture‐infused therapeutic working alliances.