Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Counselor

✍ Scribed by Changming Duan, Chris Brown

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 457
• Series: Counseling and Professional Identity
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Organized around the latest CACREP Standards, Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Counselor by Changming Duan and Chris Brown is a timely book that 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Editors’ Preface • Richard Parsons, Naijian Zhang
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Section 1: Professional Counseling: A Cultural Occurrence
1 Monocultural Context of Counseling as a Helping Profession
2 Demands for Multicultural Professional Counseling
3 Multicultural Movement: The Fourth Force
Section 2: Counseling in the 21st Century: A Multicultural Phenomenon
4 Multicultural Contexts of Professional Counseling in the 21st Century
5 Redefining and Renewing the Counseling Profession in the 21st Century
Section 3: Becoming Multiculturally Competent
6 Developing a Multicultural Identity
7 Understanding Social Oppression and Cultural Pluralism
Section 4: Exercising Multicultural Competencies: Working With the Culturally Diverse
8 Working With Diversity in Racial, Ethnic, and Nationality Contexts
9 Working With Diversity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Contexts
10 Working With Diversity in Social Class Contexts
11 Working With Diversity in Physical Ability
12 Working With Diversity in Religion and Spirituality
Section 5: Social Justice and Multicultural Counseling
13 Role of Social Justice in Counseling
14 Developing Social Justice Counseling and Advocacy Skills
Section 6: Applying Multicultural Competencies: Case Examples
15 Helping Jermaine Feel “Normal”
16 Helping Darryl and Samar to “Fight Fairly”
Epilogue: From the Authors’ Chairs
Index