Expanding Multicultural Competence through Social Justice Leadership

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 282-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Arredondo ◽  
Patricia Perez
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Multicultural Competency ◽  
Case Conceptualization ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Standards And Guidelines ◽  
Advocacy Strategies ◽  
Martin Luther King

Social justice and multicultural competence have been inextricably linked for nearly four decades, influencing the development of multicultural competency standards and guidelines and organizational change in psychology. This response provides a historical perspective on the evolution of competencies and offers clarifications regarding their scope, actual counselor behavior, relationship to case conceptualization, and political implications. Advocacy strategies of social justice leaders such as César Chávez, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks are highlighted and recommended for incorporation in a counseling psychology social justice agenda.

Teaching Social Justice in Counseling Psychology

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (8) ◽  
pp. 1058-1083 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue L. Motulsky ◽  
Susan H. Gere ◽  
Rakhshanda Saleem ◽  
Sidney M. Trantham
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Multicultural Competency ◽  
Online Discussions ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Core Courses ◽  
Nontraditional Teaching

Recent years have witnessed increased calls from counseling psychology to include social justice competencies in the training of future practitioners. Integration of social justice awareness, advocacy skills, and opportunities for social change action are needed extensions of the field’s commitment to multicultural competency. Classroom teaching is a key component of transforming counseling psychology curricula and of developing students’ awareness of the value of social justice perspectives, yet pedagogical applications are rarely present in the literature. This article provides a case example of the integration of social justice and multicultural consciousness across the curriculum of one counseling psychology program. It highlights examples of innovative pedagogical techniques within a variety of core courses. We present specific examples of readings and nontraditional teaching approaches to promote social justice consciousness, including experiential exercises, self-reflection opportunities, use of video and online discussions, and assignments.

Multicultural Competence and Social Justice Training in Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex L. Pieterse ◽  
Sarah A. Evans ◽  
Amelia Risner-Butner ◽  
Noah M. Collins ◽  
Laura Beth Mason
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
Social Justice Advocacy ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Course Syllabi

This article presents the findings of a descriptive content analysis of 54 multicultural and diversity-related course syllabi drawn from counseling and counseling psychology programs accredited by the American Psychological Association and the Accreditation of Counseling and Related Programs. Results suggest that most courses adhere to the knowledge, awareness, and skills paradigm of multicultural competence. However, actual course content varies considerably. Whereas the findings identify social justice content as a growing presence in multicultural courses, there is a need to more clearly outline the fundamental points of distinction and overlap between multicultural competence and social justice advocacy in counselor and counseling psychology training.

Incorporating Multicultural Competence Into Social-Justice Counseling-Psychology Training

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlton E. Green ◽  
Marcia M. Liu ◽  
Terry L. Sass ◽  
Christian Cho ◽  
Janet E. Helms
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Psychology Training

Moving From Contemplation to Preparation: Is Counseling Psychology Ready to Embrace Culturally Responsive Prevention?

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 840-849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve M. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Cultural Responsiveness ◽  
System Level ◽  
Change Model ◽  
Preventive Interventions

The confluence of prevention, multicultural competence and cultural responsiveness, and social justice is embryonic but holds much promise. The author uses the stages of change model to heighten awareness of how counseling psychologists are situated to provide well-developed system-level interventions and to examine the organizational and individual barriers to doing such work. The author then highlights the benefits for counseling psychology of engaging in preventive interventions. Strategies are provided to enhance the integration of prevention in training programs' curriculum in both the applied and research elements of the program. By providing learning opportunities that expose trainees to community interventions with disenfranchised populations, counseling psychology's commitment to social justice and multiculturalism will be more fully realized.

Multicultural Competence, Social Justice, and Counseling Psychology: Expanding Our Roles

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Vera ◽  
Suzette L. Speight
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Multicultural Counseling ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Multicultural Counseling Competencies ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Psychology Literature

The construct of multicultural competence has gained much currency in the counseling psychology literature. This article provides a critique of the multicultural counseling competencies and argues that counseling psychology's operationalization of multicultural competence must be grounded in a commitment to social justice. Such a commitment necessitates an expansion of our professional activities beyond counseling and psychotherapy. While counseling is one way to provide services to clients from oppressed groups, it is limited in its ability to foster social change. Engaging in advocacy, prevention, and outreach is critical to social justice efforts, as is grounding teaching and research in collaborative and social action processes.

Toward Jerusalem: A journey of the eternal now (A Sermon)

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-107
Author(s):  
Richard Francis Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Martin Luther King

This article is a theological-ethical Lenten sermon that attempts to discern the transcendent themes in the narrative of Luke 9-19 with an especial focus upon “setting the face toward Jerusalem” and the subsequent weeping over Jerusalem. The sermon moves from a passage from William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying through a series of hermeneutical turns that rely upon insights from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Will Campbell, Augustine, and Paul Tillich with the hope of illuminating what setting of the face on Jerusalem might mean. Tillich’s “eternal now” theme elaborates Augustine’s insight that memory and time reduce the present as, to paraphrase the Saint, that all we have is a present: a present remembered, a present experienced, and a present anticipated. The Gospel is a timeless message applicable to every moment in time and history. The sermon seeks to connect with recent events in the United States and the world that focus upon challenges to the ideals of social justice and political tyranny.

White Supremacy and Counseling Psychology: A Critical–Conceptual Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick R. Grzanka ◽  
Kirsten A. Gonzalez ◽  
Lisa B. Spanierman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The United States ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
White Clients ◽  
Racial Progress ◽  
Counseling Psychologists

The mainstreaming of White nationalism in the United States and worldwide suggests an urgent need for counseling psychologists to take stock of what tools they have (and do not have) to combat White supremacy. We review the rise of social justice issues in the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions and point to the limits of existing paradigms to address the challenge of White supremacy. We introduce transnationalism as an important theoretical perspective with which to conceptualize global racisms, and identify White racial affect, intersectionality, and allyship as three key domains of antiracist action research. Finally, we suggest three steps for sharpening counseling psychologists’ approaches to social justice: rejecting racial progress narratives, engaging in social justice-oriented practice with White clients, and centering White supremacy as a key problem for the field of counseling psychology and allied helping professions.

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