In every school, we find students belongs to different cultures. In this presentation described the need of counseling in a multicultural environment to help student and teacher to create an effective learning environment.

1. MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL COUNSELING
CONTENTS
• Definition of Culture,
Multicultural and Counseling
• Multicultural School
Counseling
• Need of Multicultural School
Counseling
• Role of School Administration
• Duties of Counselor
• References

2. DEFINITIONS OF CULTURE, MULTICULTURE AND COUNSELING
▪ The sum of attitudes, customs and beliefs that distinguishes one
group of people from another. Includes language, material
objects, ritual, institutions, way of thinking, behaving or working,
music, architecture, literature and art etc.
▪ Relating to or representing several different cultures or cultural
elements or consisting of relating to or designed for the cultures
of several different races in a society or institution etc.
▪ Professional guidance of the individual by utilizing psychological
method especially in collecting case history data, using various
techniques of the personal interview, and testing interests and
aptitudes e.g. career counseling etc.

3. MULTICULTURE SCHOOL COUNSELING
▪ The Multicultural counseling in educational space develops in
the conditions of undertaking the proactive role by the
counselor who teaches, aids, supports the beneficiaries to
correctly understand certain types of social behaviors and
reactions.
▪ As specialized activity, inside school, the multicultural
counseling acts both in therapeutic and prevention purpose
face to the identified crisis situations and facilitates the
optimization of strategies which school might use in actual
situations.

4. NEED OF MULTICULTURAL SCHOOL COUNSELING
▪ Every one live in Multiculture society.
▪ Integration of Multicultural Students and to promote equality.
▪ To solve problems related to language, religion, customs, which
effects on learning etc.
▪ To help in accommodation within school and society.
▪ To promote coordination between multicultural students.
▪ To prepare students as positive and helpful productive citizens.
▪ To change discriminative behaviour.

5. ROLE OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
▪ To prepare school counselors to integrate a critical
understanding of issues relating to culture, race, social class,
ethnicity, sexual identity, religious beliefs and other aspects of
identity and social location into mental health assessment and
service delivery.
▪ While it is vital for school counselors to understand the unique
challenges of meeting the needs of a culturally diverse school,
they can draw upon multicultural coursework and lessons
about linguistic, religion, ethnicity, social class etc. diversity to
understand others positively.

6. CONT.
▪ Language is the initial stages of development cooperation
between different cultural background students.
▪ To consider the importance of education as a vehicle for
economic and social success, school has to provide essential
resources to counselor to learn and understand different
languages.
▪ Religions knowledge helps counselor; to solve student queries
and problems, to develop coordination between students and to
maintain healthy environment in school.
▪ Culture is another important part to provide culturally
responsive services to every student, school counselors need to
develop their understanding about different cultures.

7. DUTIES OF COUNSELOR
▪ The purpose of counseling is to prevent the situations of personal,
educational and social crisis in the multicultural school institution.
▪ The counselor intervenes professionally for the school integration
considering the limits of cultural values of different groups.
▪ In multicultural school organization the counselor helps eliminate
the discriminative stereotypes of prejudices and promotes the
equality of culture.
▪ The counselling activity identifies educative formative valences
which facilitate the efficient and durable learning necessary for
solving the situations of individual and collective crisis.

8. CONT.
▪ Identifies the problem of social adaption and integration at
individual level.
▪ To correct the discriminative behaviors at group level,
manifested through; rejection, marginalization, branding.
▪ Used positive quench and reinforcement, roles assuming and
positive reinforcement, behavioural contact, positive
reinforcement and renouncing to reinforcement.

9. REFERENCES
▪ https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture
▪ http://smallbusiness.chron.com/list-five-dimensions-culture-affect-employee-behavior-24161.html
▪ http://www.dictionary.com/browse/multicultural
▪ http://www.tesol.org/docs/defaultsource/books/14030_sample.pdf?sfvrsn=2
▪ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813027638
▪ https://theses.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08272009-174832/unrestricted/Airen_OE_D_2009.pdf
▪ http://multicultural.utk.edu/about/learning-outcomes/