Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence: A Systems Approach (The Merrill Counseling Series)

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This text is an innovative evidence-based approach to facilitating students journey to becoming multiculturally competent counselors. Comprehensive thoughtful and in-depth Developing Multicultural Competence goes beyond general discussions of race and ethnicity to include discourse on a broader more complex view of multiculturalism in clients and trainees lives. Both scholarly and highly interactive this new text strives to present trainees with empirically-based information about multicultural counseling and social advocacy paired with engaging self-reflective activities discussion questions case inserts and study aids creating opportunities for experiential learning related to cultural diversity considerations and social advocacy issues within clients social systems. Addressing CACREP (2001/2009) Standards related to the Social and Cultural Diversity core area the book is broken into four parts: Part One covers key concepts and terms regarding multicultural constructs and cross-cultural communication; Part Two defines social advocacy and identifies the major forms of oppression; Part Three discusses the major cultural and diversity groups; and Part Four develops trainee skills for working with diverse clients including infusing multiculturalism in how they conceptualize evaluate and treat these clients.