Multicultural Self Assessment Essay

Assignment 1
Journal Entry
Multicultural Self-Assessment
A brief summarize of multicultural self-assessment
A Multicultural are people of different cultures which co-exist within a city, neighborhood or a country but maintain their culture’s individuality (Hays & Gray, 2014).
Realization you were “Other”
The first time I realized I was “Other” when my sister and I was bused to my middle school for the first time. When the bus arrived at the school there were white men, women and police officers in front of the building. When the door open a white lady said, “Welcome to Hall Fletcher Middle School. For the first time in my life I was so close to a white person that I could touch her hand, or saw so many in one place. Once the bus load of black children enter the auditorium everyone was being seat as I looked around realization sunk in, I was no longer surrounded by all blacks, in fact, the whites outnumbered the backs children which appeared to be twenty to one
Experience of “Otherness”
The reactions of attending an integrated school of all nationality was scary. However, nothing compared to when my permanent change of station to Ft Riley. I was

placed in a line unit which females were not allowed. At the time The Unit was expecting a male. When I arrived expecting to resume my position as a senior commissioned officer the first sergeant informed me that the unit was an all-male united. I was livid, thinking we were now in a military where we were equal. I even stated that I was on orders and this is where the Army sent me. Therefore, no could override the commander in chief. After going thru a chain of no’s I became “Otherness” This is when self-assessment and realization of being “other” kick in. I went home for about 2 months until my orders were change.
Counseling Identity
My developmental stage impacted my experience of “Otherness” have allowed me to experience being the minority of standing along or not being able to obtain a position because of my sex.

As a young impressionable black adolescence and as a retired female have embedded a passion for the multicultural world which I live in. Therefore, I look at all people as having value. As I grow as a professional counselor it is important to me that I obtain knowledge in the Mental Health Counseling Program that will enhance my ability to guild clients in resolving issues that have prevent them from obtaining the quality of life they seek. No Man is Island is a song I learned while attending Hall Fletcher which have govern my life, the words of the song have a true meaning for me; we do need one another, YouTube, Mormon

(2014).
Multicultural awareness and Cultural Competency
The importance of multicultural awareness and cultural competency to the practice of clinical mental health counseling no two cultural share the same mannerism, makeup, or the diversity one culture may have, Hays and Gray (2014). Therefore, a counselor that have become cultural encapsulation may become is impair working with multicultural. Hays and Gray (2014)

Reference:
Hays, D. G., & G.M. (2014). Multicultural counseling. In B. T. Erford (Ed.), Orientation to the
counseling profession Advocacy, ethics, and essential professional foundation (2nd) Upper
Saddle River, NJ Pearson Education
YouTube, Mormon (2014). Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. Composed and
lyrics by Joan Whitney, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5sL8f-aucM