"Human service professionals seek the training, experience, education and supervision necessary to ensure their effectiveness in working with culturally diverse individuals based on age, ethnicity, culture, race, ability, gender, language preference, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, nationality, or other historically oppressive groups. In addition, they will strive to increase their competence in methods which are known to be the best fit for the population(s) with whom they work."

• How does the idea of multiculturalism apply to crisis intervention and prevention?
  • Identify two culturally biased assumptions and demonstrate how they might impede crisis intervention efforts.
  • Excludingyour HMSV course work, what training have you received in diversity or multiculturalism?
  • If you have not had any, what steps would you need to take to meet this ethical obligation as a future human service profession?