Multicultural Competencies
A Guidebook of Practices
Description:... Intended to benefit the entire counseling community, this guidebook demonstrates current multicultural competencies and successful delivery of services across the various professional counseling disciplines. Leading authorities offer concrete direction for effective multicultural counseling and reflect on what they have found to be the best practices in their specialty area. Chapters include: (1) "Experiential Training in Multicultural Counseling" (G. Roysircar, D.R. Webster, J. Germer, J. Palensky, E. Lynne, G.R. Campbell, Y. Yang, J. Liu, and J. Blodgett-McDeavitt); (2) "Multicultural Competency Interventions for Building Positive Racial Identity in White Counselor Trainees" (D.S. Sandhu and J. Looby); (3) "'Walking the Talk': Simulations in Multicultural Training" (P.B. Pedersen); (4) "Engaging Students in the Quest for Competence in Multiculturalism" (A.L. Santiago-Rivera and M. Moody); (5) "Cultural Considerations in Counselor Training and Supervision" (M. Faubert and D.C. Locke); (6) "Women of Color and Substance Abuse" (O. Madison-Colmore and J.L. Moore, III); (7) "Multicultural Issues in Assessment" (R.M.D. Aviles); (8) "The Power of Context: Counseling South Asians within a Family Context" (A.G. Inman and N. Tewari); (9) "Deconstructing Black Gay Shame" (R. McLean); (10) "Use of Narratives, Metaphor, and Relationship in the Assessment and Treatment of a Sexually Reactive Native American Youth" (L.L. Frey); (11) "Multicultural Competencies and Group Work" (T.A.A. Portman); (12) "Culture-Centered Counseling from an Existential Perspective" (M.P. Evans and A. Valdez); (13) "Including Spirituality in Multicultural Counseling" (K.M. Evans); (14) "Applying Multicultural Competencies in the School Setting: Sexual Identity of an African American Adolescent" (C.C. Hogan); (15) "Culturally Diverse Clients in Employment Counseling" (C. Rooney and W. Liu); (16) "Multiculturalism in Cyberspace" (M.D. Hawkins); (17) "Against the Odds: Successfully Implementing Multicultural Counseling Competencies in a Counseling Center on a Predominantly White Campus" (M.A. Fukuyama and E. Delgado-Romero); (18) "Transforming College Campuses: Implications of the Multicultural Competencies Guidelines" (K.K. Kwan and D.J. Taub); (19) "Applying Multicultural Competencies in Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education" (P. Arredondo); (20)"Multicultural Practices in Historically Black Institutions" (Q.D. Fowler); (21) "Multiculturalism in the Military" (J. Henderson). (Each chapter contains references.) (GCP).
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