COUNSELING
Counseling: Theoretical Perspectives
The approach to forming a group would be the manual selection of the group members since a group of culturally diverse adolescent females needs to be present for this purpose. A fixed quota of culturally diverse females could be selected, for instance, 3 adolescent females that are American, 3 adolescent females who are African American, 3 Hispanic adolescent females, and so on. This method could help reduce bias in the inclusion in order to ensure that an equal number of culturally diverse adolescent females is included in the group counseling sessions.
Since adolescent females from diverse ethnic backgrounds are to be included, the age group that should be taken into account is from 10 years to 19 years. This is the specific age that could be counted in as being a minor. Research suggests that there is a particular manner of taking decisions related to selection, recruitment, and screening of the human participants of a group counseling who are minor, or in this case, adolescents (DeLucia-Waack, 2006, p. 50). Their confidentiality and
Some of the criteria,...…for individuals and the entire group.
Keeping multicultural consideration at the forefront of decision-making, one theoretical orientation that could be used during group counseling could be solution-focused groups. The solution-focused theory revolves around the viewpoint of social constructionism (citation from the customer-provided book). The theory is built on the perspective that time and cultural knowledge should be prioritized for assessing individuals views of the world who speak different languages are from varied backgrounds. The cultural conversations taking place in such a group would help discern the social constructionist paradigm for giving meaning to the challenges encountered on the basis of cultural awareness…
