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Experiential Approach for Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence
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Experiential Approach for Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence



April 2012 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Experiential Approach for Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence by Mary L. Fawcett and Kathy M. Evans is an ideal companion text for students preparing for a career in counseling or mental health. Mental-health workers-in-training need to learn to work effectively with clients from diverse backgrounds, and this text helps them develop these key skills by providing a ready-made resource of multicultural and diversity activities that instructors can assign to enhance student learning in class. It is applicable to all of the core courses in the counseling curriculum and it is developmentally designed to help students build multicultural and diversity competencies from the beginning level to an advanced level.
 
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

Provided important reflection assignments for students developing as multicultural counselors.

Dr Penny Rosenthal
Counseling and Student Personnel, Minnesota State Univ-Mankato
April 11, 2014

It is an excellent book in teaching new counselors how to be competent and courageous when working with their patients of different ethnic backgrounds.

Dr S. Alexander Riley
Health Sciences, United States University
August 28, 2013

Mary L. Fawcett

Mary L. Fawcett received her doctorate from the University of South Carolina and is currently a full professor at Winona State University. She has over 12 years of experience as an educator and counselor with interests in counselor training and supervision with an emphasis on multicultural competency development. She has developed and led several Guatemala Travel Study immersion courses for graduate counselor education students. She is published with articles in major journals about research in the following areas: gender and career development in secondary students, academic risk factors of K-12 students, and the effectiveness of... More About Author

Kathy M. Evans

Kathy 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. More About Author

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ISBN: 9781412996525
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