After completing the reading for this unit, what do you think is the greatest obstacle facing marginalized populations in addiction treatment? What will you do as a counselor to ensure that all of your clients receive the best treatment possible?

Leading Barrier in Marginalized Population Addiction Treatment Student’s Name Professor’s Name Institutional Affiliations Course Name and Number Due Date Leading Barrier in Marginalized Population Addiction Treatment The leading problem in counseling marginalized issues is that the therapeutic problems used by their therapists present minimal relevance to their challenges, making them ineffectual. This course text reveals that overreliance on Western-based approaches while dealing with their challenges, including addiction, fails to recognize unique culturally and environmentally based aspects of consideration critical for these individuals’ recovery. Corey (2017) also reveals that these models’ assumptions, biases, and worldviews may become counterproductive to the counseling objectives. In such circumstances, counselors may approach their clients’ issues with misleading perceptions and overemphasizing dominant cultural values, creating an unsupportive setting. As a result, the counseling sessions become insensit...