This text is an ideal companion for anyone preparing for a career in counseling or mental health, applicable to all core courses in the counseling curriculum and developmentally designed to build multicultural and diversity competencies from a beginning to advanced level. As a mental health- worker-in-training you will need to learn to work effectively with clients from diverse backgrounds, and this text provides a ready-made resource of multicultural and diversity activities to enhance your classroom learning.
This book is structured around the nine core areas of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (MCCs). These competencies are designated by the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) to help you learn the critical areas of personal and racial identity, develop an awareness of your own cultural values and biases (knowledge, awareness, and skills), and to build an understanding of both the counselor and client′s worldviews. The book devotes three final chapters to culturally appropriate intervention strategies that again strengthen your awareness, knowledge, and skills.
Innehållsförteckning
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Multicultural Counseling Competencies
3. Dimensions of Personal Identity and Racial Identity Models
4. Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Value and Biases, Attitudes and Beliefs
5. Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Values and Biases, Knowledge
6. Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Values and Biases, Skills
7. Counselor Awareness of Client′s Worldview, Attitudes and Beliefs
8. Counselor Awareness of Client′s Worldview, Knowledge
9. Counselor Awareness of Client′s Worldview, Skills
10. Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, Beliefs and Attitudes
11. Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, Knowledge
12. Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, Skills
13. Goals and Plans for the Future
Om författaren
Kathy M. Evans, who received her doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University, is associate professor at the University of South Carolina where she is the Program Coordinator of the Counselor Education Program. She is widely published with articles in major journals and chapters in key textbooks in the area of multicultural counseling, with special emphases on issues of race, career counseling, and feminist issues. Her most recent books include Gaining Cultural Competence in Career Counseling and Introduction to Feminist Therapy.