Worldview and Change in Cross-Cultural Counseling

A model for conceptualizing the change process in cross-cultural counseling is presented, using worldview as a unifying construct. Drawing from anthropology and counseling process research, key understandings regarding culture and change are combined into a coherent framework that provides guidance to counselors on how to enhance the therapeutic relationship and effectively facilitate change in a cross-cultural counseling context. After the model is outlined, its operationalization in counseling and assessment is described and illustrated Finally, it is concluded that although further research is needed worldview appears to be a viable unifying construct for understanding change within cross-cultural counseling.