Hypothetical Counseling Strategy

1. for Native American Clients Hypothetical Counseling Strategy By Jim Snyder, Mary Tenney and Jeannette Testa

2. Levels of Acculturation

3. The client may speak English, but generally speaks and thinks in their native language. Holds onto traditional values and beliefs. Practices only traditional customs and methods of worship. Traditional acculturation

4. Client may speak the native language and English. May not fully accept the cultural heritage and practices of their tribal group. And may also not fully identify with the mainstream cultural values and behaviors. Marginal Acculturation

5. Generally accepted by both the dominant society and the tribal society. Able to know, accept and practice both mainstream values and behaviors and traditional values and behaviors of their cultural heritage. Bi-Cultural Acculturation

6. Accepted by the dominant society and embrace mainstream cultural values, behaviors and expectations. Assimilated Acculturation

7. Assimilated Native Americans who have made a conscious choice to return to the ‘old ways’. • They are generally accepted by the dominant society. • Seek to embrace previously lost traditional cultural values, beliefs and practices of their tribal heritage. Pan-traditional acculturation

8. Grandfather (Ira): Traditional Mary Guinness: Assimilated John Guinness: Assimilated Acculturation levels of Hayes Family