A SUMMARY AND REVIEW OF THE ARTICLE MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCIES AND STANDARDS: A CALL TO THE PROFESSION (original) (raw)

Multicultural counseling competencies research: A 20-year content analysis

Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007

The authors conducted a 20-year content analysis of the entire field of empirical research on the multicultural counseling competencies (D. W. Sue et al., 1982). They conducted an exhaustive search for empirical research articles using PSYCInfo, as well as complete reviews of the past 20 years of several journals (e.g.,

Multicultural Counseling Competencies: An Exploratory Factor Analysis

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2000

The author examined the underlying factors of the Association of Multicultural Counseling and Development's (AMCD) Multicultural Competencies. One hundred fiftyone professional counselors who are members of the American Counseling Association responded to a survey that included items reflecting AMCDs multicultural competencies and Explanatory Statements. An exploratory factor analysis revealed 5 multicultural competencies factors: Awareness, Knowledge, Definitions of Terms, Racial Identity Development, and Skills. Considerable attention has been focused on the multicultural competence of professional counselors (Atkinson, Thompson,

7. Development And Initial Validation Of The Multicultural Counseling Awareness Scale

2017

In recent years counseling programs have devoted increasing attention to multicultural issues in the curriculum. The counseling profession's initial interest in multicultural training (or development) was buoyed by the Division of Counseling Psychology (Division #17 of the American Psychological Association [APA]) position paper on multicultural competencies (Sue et al., 1982). This position paper delineated 11 cross-cultural counseling competencies organized

Client Perspectives of Multicultural Counseling Competence

The Counseling Psychologist, 2002

Multicultural competence is a burgeoning area of research in counseling psychology. However, there has been little focus on understanding multicultural competence from the perspective of clients. This study used qualitative interviews and grounded theory to develop a model of clients’ perspectives of multicultural counseling. The resulting model suggested that clients’ experiences of multicultural counseling were contingent on their self-identified needs and on how well they felt the counselor met these needs. Moreover, clients appeared to actively manage and moderate the extent to which culture was broached in counseling based on a host of conditions including counseling relationship, salience of identity, counselor behavior, and expectations of counseling, to name a few. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Why Is It Difficult to Apply What We Know…?

2017

Given the diversity related curriculum requirements of many accrediting bodies in education and the human services to improve service delivery for those who are part of underrepresented groups in the United States, the curriculum requirements efficacy is debatable. Evidence suggest there is a disconnect between the principles of social justice and multicultural counseling competencies and the lack of application of these two principles. This chapter will emphasize these concerns and the reasons why there is such a gap with the application of these two principles using both empirical and anecdotal evidence from past research. Because the terms behavior/action and application seems to be used as synonyms, we will explore the explicit differences in these and other terms. This chapter will also highlight scenarios and give examples of what application looks like and end with recommendations to improve the application of both the multicultural counseling and social justice principles. I...

Strategies and Techniques for Counselor Training Based on the Multicultural Counseling Competencies

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2001

Strategies and techniques based on the Multicultural Counseling Competencies must be grounded in principles that establish counselor training programs as learning environments and that reframe curricula through cornpetency-based objectives. A framework is outlined for infusing multiculturalism into curricula through the application of specific strategies and techniques. The authors argue that, ultimately, it is the responsibility of counselor educators to increase their multicultural competence.