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Multicultural Counseling
cultural bias and/or culturally appropriate interventions.
Burnett, J.A., Hamel, D., & Long, L.L. (2004). Service learning in graduate counselor education: Developing multicultural counseling competency. Journal of Multicultural
Counseling and Development, 32(3), 180-191.
Even the most enthusiastic counseling students are initially limited by their cultural worldview. This article examines ways to enhance the education of graduate students in the field with service-based learning. Service learning integrates classroom learning with community service. The approach merges academic concepts with real-world, hands-on experience early on in the students' career to show the link between theory and practice. Everyone benefits: the student, the persons receiving the service, and the clients of the eventual graduates. The article involves a qualitative study of a single group of students who volunteered at four service agencies serving African-American low-income communities. Although assessing the ultimate effect on the students' practice was not conclusive (the study was not longitudinal in nature) all students reported having a positive experience as reflected in the mandatory journals students kept for the course. Program participants likewise benefited.
Charles, L., L., Thomas, D., & Thornton, M.L. (2005). Overcoming bias towards same-sex couples: A case study from inside an ethics classroom. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 31(3), 239-49.
Cultural tolerance in counseling should not only be conceptualized as a question of ethnic or racial sensitivity: family counselors must also deal with same-sex couples in a manner that suits the unique needs of these individuals....
The article notes a paucity of literature on the subject specific to the field of marriage and family therapy. The article's impetus began when the authors' students openly expressed resistance to dealing with LGBT persons in their future practice and wondered if there was a way to 'opt out' of this. To rectify this bias, outside consultants were brought into the classroom specifically to train students in the special needs of the population and to make the students more self-reflective about their own stereotyping. Common issues which arose amongst the students were reconciling their spiritual beliefs with the need to treat clients. As a result of the intervention, students expressed greater willingness and openness to treat same-sex couples.
Goh, M. (2005). Cultural competence and master therapists: An inextricable relationship.
Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 27(1), 71-81.
To be an effective 'master' therapist requires the therapist to be culturally competent. However, few research studies are in existence which study both of these variables, according to the authors' literature review of the subject. Both concepts of mastery and cultural competency can be elusive to define yet clearly there is a need to enhance both, particularly given the mounting evidence that minority patients do not avail themselves of mental health services to the same degree as whites. Overall, this article points to the need for more research on establishing what qualifies as multicultural competence in a counselor. It critiques even the existing cross-cultural research as not "conclusive or useful because of the bias in value-laden assumptions and hypotheses of previous research methodologies and because of viewing results from Western…
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Also, despite what the counselors themselves think or feel, more emphasis on multicultural training, from the perspectives of the specific cultures themselves, needs to be undertaken. Implications for career counselors. Career counselors need to understand that just because they feel they can successfully handle a multicultural environment doesn't mean they can from the perspectives of the cultures and individuals themselves. What is your overall impression of the article? I thought the article was
Indeed, the lack of "recognition and protection" by schools in general contributes to the "critically high level of suicide" among this community of minority students (146). Surely alert, competent, contemporarily up-to-date school counselors understand that they have the "daunting but imperative obligation to become social activists for gay, lesbian, and bisexual students" since these students are the most "stigmatized members of school environs," Stone continues. There is no doubt that
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