Counseling Multicultural Adolescents

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This paper discusses the adolescent in a multicultural and ethnic school system. According to this paper, American schools are increasing in cultural diversity, but remain based on standard majority student norms. This paper reports that teachers and educators employed by this school system, are ill equipped to deal with the growing present needs of the culturally diverse student body.

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"There are an increasing number of children from diverse backgrounds entering the US school system. Projects for the future (Hodjkinson, 1985; Sue, 1992 as cited in Holcomb-McCoy, 2004) indicate that "the majority of children attending public school in the year 2020 will be children-of-color or children from diverse cultural, ethnic and/or linguistic backgrounds." Many school professionals, especially counselors, are unequipped to deal with the problems facing the students, teachers and parents in their role as counselor and consultant. This is such a growing concern that the American School Counselor Association adopted a position statement urging school counselors to take action in order to assure that all students, those from traditional as well as culturally diverse backgrounds have access to appropriate services and opportunities."

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