ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that European Americans and their diverse traditions, customs, languages, dialects, and communication styles will challenge counsellors to plan counselling interventions that reflect both cultural backgrounds and lifespan stages. European Americans originate from diverse locations, including France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, and Portugal. The chapter examines European Americans in the four lifespan stages and how counsellors can plan effective professional intervention. It includes a discussion of individual, group, and family therapies that may be appropriate for European American clients. Counselling European American children requires consideration of individual children and their respective cultures. Counselling European American children will differ from counselling clients in other lifespan stages and other cultural groups. Counsellors may experience more difficulty when intervening by using family therapy with some European American cultural groups. Counsellors working with adolescents from European American cultures might choose to meet with these clients several times prior to actual family counselling sessions to inform them of expectations and techniques.
