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1- All mental health professional organizations have guidelines and codes of ethics, such as the APA, that outline competencies or best practices that help the therapist become culturally responsive and allow clients needs to be incorporated into therapy. Due to society becoming increasingly diverse, attention to cultural competence and culturally sensitive treatment is necessary for ethical practice. Besides abiding by ethical standards, psychologists must also go beyond and educate themselves about multicultural practices in order to develop appropriate relationships so that client needs are met in a thoughtful, sensitive, and effective manner.
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2- Cross-cultural competence and sensitivity have been acknowledged as critical in the mental health professions since the early 1980s when the rapidly changing worldwide demographics were brought to the attention of both mental health professionals and society as a whole. In recent years, there has been some debate about whether the terms cultural competence and sensitivity are adequate in addressing the complex and unique needs of increasingly diverse client populations.
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3- Cross-cultural psychotherapy has come of age as a scientific discipline, but how has it developed?
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4- The most important, goal of sensitive cross-cultural mental health psychology is to increase students cultural awareness and consciousness, to help them effectively deal with the challenge of cultural diversity that exists in their practices of psychotherapy and counseling.
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