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Focusing on strengths through multicultural counseling
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Comas-Díaz, Lillian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Resilience (Personality trait).
- Cross-cultural counseling.
- Resilience, Psychological.
- Counseling.
- Medical Subjects:
- Resilience, Psychological.
- Counseling.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films
- Educational films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (40 min., 17 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] American Psychological Association 2015
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Dr. Lillian Comas-Díaz conducts a single session with a Black woman in her 50s who feels disrespected by her supervisor at her social work internship. Using a multicultural framework, they begin by discussing the client's frustration about her internship and her sense that the unfair treatment is racially motivated. They discuss her coping strategies for dealing with the situation, including praying and not personalizing the situation. The client denies that she is still negatively impacted by the situation at work, prompting Dr. Comas-Díaz to acknowledge her resilience and strengths. They discuss how the client uses her strengths to enhance her well-being. The therapist applauds the client's resilience, but also challenges her to acknowledge the ways in which the current situation may still be negatively impacting her, and stresses the need for the client to take care of herself. They discuss how the client uses previous experiences to help her respond to the current situation, including how she learned to channel her anger. The client expresses ambivalence over whether she experiences anger, and Comas-Díaz emphasizes the importance of recognizing her anger and encourages her to think of it as a constructive energy that can help her achieve her goals. At the end of the session, Dr. Comas-Díaz urges the client to take better care of herself and to seek social support
- Notes:
- Vendor provided data
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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