Full Description
Organized around the latest CACREP Standards, this timely book covers the core concepts, theories, and skills of multicultural and social justice counseling. With a focus on helping readers develop their multicultural professional identities, the authors conceptualize multicultural identity development as the foundation for comprehending the pervasive impact of social privilege and oppression and developing competencies to effectively work with the culturally diverse. Case illustrations, exercises, and an emphasis on reflective practice foster a true understanding and application of concepts.
Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Counselor is part of the SAGE Counseling and Professional Identity Series, which targets specific competencies identified by CACREP (Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs).
Contents
Section 1: Professional Counseling: A Cultural Occurrence
Chapter 1: Monocultural Context of Counseling as a Helping Profession
The Cultural and Value Foundations of Counseling in the United States
The Cultural and Value Foundations of Counseling in the United States
A Call for Multicultural Professional Identity Development in Transforming the Field of Counseling
Chapter 2: Demands for Multicultural Professional Counseling
The Presence and History of Cultural and Social Oppression
The Demographic changes in the United States
Immigration and Globalization
Necessary Multicultural Ethics
Chapter 3: Multicultural Movement - the Fourth Force
The Context and History of the Multicultural Movement
The Focus and Scope of Multicultural Counseling
A Necessary Multicultural Competency - Social Advocacy
Section 2: Counseling in the 21st Century: A multicultural Phenomenon
Chapter 4: Multicultural Contexts of Professional Counseling in the 21st Century
Cultural Context at the Individual Level
Cultural Context at the Societal Level
Cultural Context at the International Level
Chapter 5: Redefining and Renewing the Counseling Profession in the 21st Century
Redefining and Renewing: Now is the Time
Barriers to Multicultural Counseling
Effective Service to the Culturally Diverse: Redefining Counseling Practice
Effectively Serving the Culturally Diverse: A process of Renewing the Profession
Working with Cultural Diversity: A Basic Ethical Responsibility
Section 3: Becoming Multiculturally Competent
Chapter 6: Developing a Multicultural Identity
A model of multicultural Competence development
Challenges of multicultural identity development: dominant vs. subordinate group identities
Self-Assessment of multicultural self
Chapter 7: Understanding Social Oppression and Cultural Pluralism
Social Oppression: Results of Unearned Privileges by Dominant Groups
Social Oppression: Unjust, Unfair, and Damaging
Understanding the Culturally Diverse
Counselors' Social and Professional Responsibility in Eliminating Oppression
Section 4: Exercising Multicultural Competencies: Working with the Culturally Diverse
Chapter 8 Working with Diversity in Racial, Ethnic, and Nationality Contexts
Understanding the cultural contexts of racially and ethnically diverse
Effect of racism, discrimination, and microaggression
Implication of cultural values difference
Cultural identity development of the racially and ethnically diverse
Assessment, Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 9 Working with Diversity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Contexts
Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Working Ethically and Effectively with Sexual Minorities
Chapter 10: Working with Diversity in Social Class Contexts
Social Class and Classism
Understanding the Social Context of the Poor
Social Class Identity, Values and Worldviews
Assessment, Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 11: Working With Diversity in Physical Ability
Including Disability Diversity: Developing Multicultural Competence
Chapter 12: Working with Diversity in Religion and Spirituality
Religion and Spirituality Defined
My Client is Religious or Spiritually Oriented, Shouldn't I Refer My Client to the Clergy?
What Do We Know about the Religious/Spiritual Orientation of Counseling Professionals?
Religion and Spirituality in Counseling
Religion, Spirituality and Ethical Considerations
Assessing Religion and Spirituality: The Clinical Interview
When does Religion and Spirituality become Harmful or Pathological?
Section 5: Social Justice and Multicultural Counseling
Chapter 13: Role of Social justice in Counseling
Social Inequality
Victimizing effects of social inequality
Social Justice
Promoting a Socially-Responsive Approach of Counseling
Chapter 14: Developing Social Justice Counseling and Advocacy skills
Social justice competence development
Taking professional Responsibility of integrating social justice into service
Taking social responsibility - community advocacy for social justice
Good Ethical Practice in a Multicultural World
Section 6: Applying Multicultural Competencies: Case Examples
Chapter 15: Helping Jermaine feel "normal"
Chapter 16: Assisting Darryl and Samar to "fight fairly"
