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Essay / Multicultural Model Essay - 1016
This model, with its "key therapist technique", is one of the only institutionally applied methods for discussing this topic, as most members of society are tired, uncomfortable or don't know how to approach it. . Although one of its weaknesses is that its research support is merely moderate, this is simply because testing this model is more difficult than testing the success of other models. Indeed, this model does not believe in the need to transform humans into test subjects, and thus rid them of their humanity, which is enlightening and can justify this weak support for research. The fact that "consumer designation" is client-based is also a strength of the model, as designating those seeking advice or guidance as "patients" medicalizes these individuals and can thus impose a permanent, stigmatized and inaccurate because of this term. This is also true with certain models such as the biological model which looks for internal causes of abnormality perhaps natural or inherent and inevitable, which negatively accredits certain individuals as being biologically abnormal and dysfunctional. This trend was also an important approach in historical dynamics. For example, this happened when some