Exploring power in multicultural counselling encounters

✍ Scribed by Marylou Ramsey

• Book ID: 104626421
• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 942 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0653
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00115682

✦ Synopsis

Power is a central dynamic in multicultural encounters. Yet many people, especially counsellors, are reluctant to discuss their experiences with power and what it means to them. As a result, power remains an often unspoken, disturbing issue in multicultural counselling and counsellor education. This article addresses this silence by: a) clarifying the relationship between power and cultural racism; b) discussing what counsellors need to know about power; c) presenting an experiential "powerlab" that counsellor educators and trainers may use to explore various aspects of power; and d) suggesting a processing format, issues and supportive resources for debriefing this exercise.