Title: Cross‐Cultural Counseling: An Existential Approach
Abstract: Counselors continue to express concern about problems inherent in cross‐cultural counseling. Despite the large literature on the subject, counseling members of ethnic groups different from that of the counselor remains problematic. Three concepts— Umwelt ( the physical environment ), Mitwelt ( the interpersonal world), and Eigenwelt ( one's inner world)—offer significant philosophical assistance to counselors wishing to overcome cultural encapsulation because, although surface cultural differences exist, humans are fundamentally more alike than they are different. The counselor needs to accept this reality to be effective in counseling culturally different clients, whether they are American minorities or foreign visitors .
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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