Cross-Cultural Counseling as an Effective and Efficient Approach for Students

This research aims to produce an effective and efficient, participatory, creative, and fun learning process. The learning strategy is also a plan that contains a series of activities designed to achieve certain educational goals and as a starting point or point of view towards the learning process. The term approach refers to the view on occurrence of a process which is still very general in nature. Therefore, the strategies, approaches and learning methods used can be sources or depend on certain approaches. Two approaches are often used to learning, namely the teacher-centered approach and the student-centered approach. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach, taking primary and secondary data sources by interviewing, observing, documenting, the analyzing and testing the data with transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The result of this study indicate that learning with a cross-cultural counseling approach is very effective and efficient for the success of students in learning process because there is no difference between them and what happens is mutual understanding of culture, mutual assistance, tolerance, and understanding of each other’s interests.

Qallunaat Crossing: The Southern-Northern Divide and Promising Practices for Canada's Inuit Young People

Life for Inuit communities in Canada’s northern territory of Nunavut has been impacted by rapid change over the past fifty years in particular, a pattern that has similarly impacted First Peoples’ communities across the southern portion of the country for centuries. Unfortunately, inadequate resources often leave young people from Nunavut challenged to safely navigate these abrupt changes within their communities and culture. The chronic lack of resources for young people is compounded by the lack of educational opportunities for Inuit adults to enter professional roles in support of the region’s next generation. As a result, non-Inuit (or Qallunaat) professionals from southern Canada are frequently recruited. This paper examines some of the challenges faced by Inuit communities and Qallunaat professionals as they traverse the North/South divide within a cross-cultural educational context. This process is characterized by struggles and joy in finding the balance between meeting young people’s basic social and emotional needs, and professionals who are often illprepared to teach and learn within a cultural context with which they have little familiarity. In response, the authors describe some of the unique attributes of Inuit life and some of the many challenges faced by young people. They also suggest that a “ transdisciplinary” approach be established (Holmes and Gastaldo, 2004) towards educating Qallunaat professionals as an important step in achieving effective practice within northern communities- one which integrates knowledge from Inuit Elders with cross-cultural counseling techniques, multicultural competency development and practice-based wisdom. Specific application of these skills will be explored in this paper to illustrate ways of engaging “multiculturalism” within this context while accounting for the right of Canada’s Inuit young people to have their basic social, emotional and cultural needs recognized during a transformative historical epoch.

“HAMBA TUHAN DI TENGAH PLURALITAS AGAMA DAN BUDAYA”

Eksistensi hidup dan pelanyanan hamba Tuhan masa kini menghadapi tantangan pluralitas, yaitu fakta adanya perbedaan suku, bangsa, warna kulit dan bahasa. Keragaman itu menjadi kekayaan sekaligus potensi konflik dalam komunitas. Secara internal, telah cukup lama gereja-gereja mengisolasi diri dalam komunitas-komunitas eksklusif dari suku, bangsa, bahasa dan daerahnya masing-masing. Namun dengan semakin mengglobalnya masyarakat dunia, maka tidak dapat dihindari terjadinya percampuran suku dan bangsa dalam gereja. Sebagai contoh, di GKJ Rawamangun tidak hanya orang Jawa yang menjadi jemaat, melainkan juga orang Batak, Timor, Minahasa, dll. Di GKP Majalengka ada pendeta berdarah Minahasa di tengah jemaat yang mayoritas dari suku Batak. Amanat Agung Tuhan Yesus sudah menegaskan bahwa semua orang Kristen bertanggung jawab untuk menjadikan semua suku (bangsa) murid-Nya (Mat 28:19-20). Dalam konteks pluralitas ini, hamba Tuhan dituntut memiliki kemampuan mengidentifikasi aspek-aspek perbedaan yang ada sebagaimana dikemukakan oleh Hesselgrave,“Effectiveness in Christian cross-cultural counseling and helping, as in all cross-cultural counseling, depend upon the ability to correctly identify and interpret universal, group-specific, and idiosyncratic factor which both counselor and counselees bring to the counseling situation”. Keragaman harus dikelola dengan baik agar tercipta kehidupan harmonis dan kondusif bagi pertumbuhan iman yang sehat.

Mondays With Mac

The purpose of this chapter is to “paint a picture of the counseling process” through rich description of how the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC) can be applied through a model and stance of cultural humility, rather than a blanket state of achieving “cultural competence” in cross-cultural counseling. The mission of this chapter to convey the critical nature of accounting for the first author's (“counselor”) positions of privilege, including positions of racial, age, socioeconomic status, and legal status privileges, over the client (“Mac”), and recognizing how cultural humility needs to be evoked within the counselor in order to apply tenants of the MSJCC as well as the counselor's interpersonal and relational-cultural approach to counseling and facilitating client growth and healing.

Mengenal Konseli melalui Konseling Lintas Budaya antara Budaya Indonesia dan Amerika

In the counseling activities certainly, counselors must be able to understand the counselee, one of them is through the cultural background so that the counseling which is conducted can proceed well and smoothly without misconception between the two, the difference in this cultural background influential towards counseling service capabilities and obtained the purpose of that counseling. The purpose of this journal is so that the counselor could be understood the differences between counseling culture in Indonesia with others and be able to implement and develop it into the counseling process. The writing method used in this article is descriptive research method, which is a method used in examining the status of a group of people, an object, a condition, a system of thought or an event in the present with the aim of making a description also data collection methods through library research. The result of this study indicates that comprehension of the counselor regarding cross-cultural counseling is very important, because the process of the counseling may involve counselors who have different cultural background, therefore very prone to occurrence culture to the counselor which resulted in counseling not going well.