Our Position on Cultural Diversity
At AMHP we totally support the traditional professional approach to understanding and taking into account a client's specific racial and cultural considerations. We need to be sensitive to the specific issues of the individual on all points.
This does not mean, however, that we should be required to affirm a mental illness as normal nor do we consider delusional conditions or sexual preferences to be legitimate cultural categories.
At AMHP we are firmly in support of a properly trained counselor's grasp on cultural understanding through professional discussion techniques (academia, are you listening?).
We are NOT in favor of forcing 100% of licensed professionals who have already been trained in this area to take 3 hrs (12.5% of their required hours) every two years simply to satisfy a special interest faction's goal of normalizing conditions historically viewed as mental illness.
About the Author
Kathleen Mills is a fire-breathing, 33+ year veteran of the counseling world. People react in one of two ways when evil touches their lives: some retreat in fear, and some advance without pause to engage it. Kathleen falls firmly in the latter group. She owns and operates Life Tree Counseling in Frisco, TX, possesses a tireless work-ethic, and eagerly awaits your arrival into her growing army of warriors.
