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bilingual counseling  

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  • Bilingual counseling is defined as therapeutic discourse that accommodates the client's linguistic characteristics and incorporates bilingual or multilingual factors as vital components of psychological and contextual functioning. Because language and culture are closely embedded, attention to language diversity responds to competent multicultural counseling that includes self-awareness of the counselor, knowledge of bilingual processes, and skills in bilingual interventions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Counseling; Bilingual Counseling]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/bilingual_counseling

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