{"id":252,"date":"2013-05-22T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-05-26T21:06:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T02:06:19","slug":"dr-paul-pedersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Pedersen&#8217;s Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9\" style=\"width: 155px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PEDERSON.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9\" alt=\"Dr. Paul B. Pedersen\" src=\"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/PEDERSON.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Paul B. Pedersen<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nNo matter how highly skilled, well trained, or intelligent one is as a counselor, if the counselor is making wrong or culturally inappropriate assumptions, he\/she will not be accurate in assessment, understanding, or interventions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to know the culture of others until and unless one has an awareness of one&#8217;s own culturally learned assumptions as they control one&#8217;s life. All behaviors are learned in a cultural context and displayed in a cultural context. It seems likely, the current trend toward increased multicultural awareness among counselors will become a &#8220;fourth force &#8221; in the helping professions of the next decade with as profound an impact on counseling as the third force of humanism had on the prevailing psychodynamic and behavioral systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how highly skilled, well trained, or intelligent one is as a counselor, if the counselor is making wrong or culturally inappropriate assumptions, he\/she will not be accurate in assessment, understanding, or interventions. &nbsp; It is difficult to know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/?p=252\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pedersen.expressions.syr.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}