Discuss the reasons why culture-sensitive therapy arose and the challenges it seeks to address.

Culturally sensitive therapy emphasizes the therapist's understanding of a client’s background, ethnicity, and belief system. Therapists can incorporate cultural sensitivity into their work to accommodate and respect differences in opinions, values, and attitudes of various cultures and different types of people. Cultural sensitivity also allows a therapist to gain and maintain cultural competence, which is the ability to first recognize and understand one’s own culture and how it influences one's relationship with a client, then understand and respond to the culture that is different from one’s own. The need for this understanding may be based on characteristics such as age, beliefs, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.

Challenges:

1)Colleagues from some cultures may be less likely to let their voices be heard
2)Integration across multicultural teams can be difficult in the face of prejudice or negative cultural stereotypes
3)Professional communication can be misinterpreted or difficult to understand across languages and cultures
4)Navigating visa requirements, employment laws, and the cost of accommodating workplace requirements can be difficult
5)Different understandings of professional etiquette
6)Conflicting working styles across teams