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ethnicities and cultural frameworks. This realization is is why the issue of developing cultural competency has become integral to modern counseling practice, as evidenced by the fact that the American
Counseling Association (ACA) has devised Multicultural Counseling Competencies that address this aspect of practice (McCarthy and Ebony, 2004). One of the ACA Competencies addresses the problem of stereotyping and
McCarthy and Ebony (2004) point out that stereotypical concepts not only mar group therapy interventions that include ethnic minority members, but also interventions geared toward groups composed of a members
of a specific gender. In this regard, McCarthy and Ebony (2004) address the group counseling needs of men and discuss communication problems encountered by two female counselors in conducting group
therapy session for a group of men who were in the process of divorce. The men expressed their dissatisfaction with the group intervention, indicating that that the "original treatment design
was inconsistent with the traditional male culture" (McCarthy and Ebony, 2004, p. 25). The two female counselors were able to truly aid their clients when their intervention was redesigned to
become more consistent with "male thinking patterns" (McCarthy and Ebony, 2004, p. 25). Another multicultural issue that can arise within the context of group counseling. The term "scapegoat" derives
from scripture and refers to an ancient Jewish ritual in which a goat was sacrificed in order to atone for the sins of the people (Clark, 2002). In the
modern sense of the world, a "scapegoat" is any "innocent person" who is assigned blame "when actual targets are excessively threatening and thought to have the potential retaliation" (Clark, 2002,
p. 271). As this suggests, a group holds the potential to turn against one of its members. This actually performs distinct social functions for the group, as the scapegoat
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