Interweaving Ethnicity and Gender in Consultation

The training of family therapy consultants in mental health and educational settings requires both a model for the development of skills and an understanding of the tasks leading to cultural competence. This paper describes and discusses the lessons learned by a consultation team as it trained in consultation by assessing, designing, and implementing interventions for a non-profit organization working with refugee children. Attention to ethnicity and gender guided the consultation process because of their prominence in the consultee's work with refugee children. The authors used the Cultural Context Model as a frame to interweave culture and context in the consultation process and expand its use.