Cultural barriers in the counseling relationship

Abstract

Cultural barriers in the counseling relationship are the counselor's and client's reciprocal racial attitudes, counselor's ignorance of client's background, language barrier of poor people in general, client's lack of familiarity with counseling, the Negro's reservation about self‐disclosure, and the sex and race taboo. The article suggests in‐service and preservice training designed to help counselors examine their attitudes toward the culturally different and expose them directly to the culture of their clients.