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Journal of Counseling and Development articles from June 2008
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Journal of Counseling and Development archives from June 2008
Contributing to the ongoing evolution of the multicultural counseling movement: an introduction to the special issue.(Introduction)
June 22, 2008... The multicultural counseling movement has taken center stage in the counseling profession. In doing so, it has revolutionized the ways that counselors have traditionally been trained to think about mental health, psychological disorders, and...
Challenges and promises of becoming a culturally competent counselor in a sociopolitical era of change and empowerment.(Expanding Cultural Considerations)
June 22, 2008... Challenges and promise are two dynamic and empowering terms. When thinking of these terms coupled with culturally competent counselor, we counselors can free-associate to related terms such as adversity, possibility, dreams, and transformation....
In search of common threads: linking multicultural, feminist, and social justice counseling paradigms.(Expanding Cultural Considerations)
June 22, 2008... Several experts in the field have asserted that the counseling profession has always been concerned about promoting social-environmental changes that foster healthy human development, especially among those persons who are adversely affected by...
Relational-cultural theory: a framework for bridging relational, multicultural, and social justice competencies.(Expanding Cultural Considerations)(Report)
June 22, 2008... Relational-cultural theory (RCT) was conceived after the publication of Jean Baker Miller's (1976) Toward a New Psychology of Women, a groundbreaking book that has been translated into more than 20 languages. The ideas in Miller's book emerged...
Liberation psychology as the path toward healing cultural soul wounds.(Expanding Cultural Considerations)
June 22, 2008... The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
--Stephen Biko (as cited in "World Cultural Geography," 1998)
Culture is part of the soul. As human beings, we are all part of a culture and not...
Infusing professional ethics into counselor education programs: a multicultural/social justice perspective.(Innovative Training Issues)(Report)
June 22, 2008... Mental health professionals are expected to practice in ways that are consistent with the ethical codes and standards established by their professions. When discussing ethical issues and their relevance for mental health practices, it is...
Addressing classism, ableism, and heterosexism in counselor education.(Innovative Training Issues)(Report)
June 22, 2008... Since the 1991 publication of the special issue of the Journal of Counseling & Development (Volume 70, Number 1) titled "Multiculturalism as a Fourth Force in Counseling," counselors and counseling psychologists have made multicultural...
Promoting the mental health of immigrants: a multicultural/social justice perspective.(Innovative Training Issues)
June 22, 2008... Current statistics indicate that the immigrant and refugee populations in the United States are rapidly increasing. In fact, the United States has witnessed the greatest migration in its history with an increase of 44% since 1990 (U.S....
Assessing multicultural competence: perceived versus demonstrated performance.(Innovations in Multicultural Research)(Report)
June 22, 2008... The multicultural counseling movement represents a revolutionary force that has clearly taken center stage in the counseling profession. This force is forging a paradigm shift in which culturally biased constructions of such fundamental...
Multicultural and social justice training for counselor education programs and colleges of education: rewards and challenges.(Innovations in Multicultural Research)
June 22, 2008... "Multiculturalism as a Fourth Force in Counseling" (Pedersen, 1991), a special issue of the Journal of Counseling & Development (Volume 70, Number 1), documented the need for colleges of education (COEs) and counselor education programs (CEPs)...
Racial microaggressions against Black Americans: implications for counseling.(Innovations in Multicultural Research)
June 22, 2008... The counseling and helping professions have acknowledged the importance of developing cultural competence in providing services to an increasingly diverse population (American Psychological Association, 2003; Sue, Arredondo, & McDavis, 1992)....
Prejudice and racism, year 2008--still going strong: research on reducing prejudice with recommended methodological advances.(Innovations in Multicultural Research)(Report)
June 22, 2008... Racism continues to be a pervasive problem throughout world society (Jones, 1997; Ponterotto, Utsey, & Pedersen, 2006). Manifestations of racism are direct and indirect, blatant and subtle in contemporary society (Ridley, 2005). An example of...
Racial microaggressions against Black counseling and counseling psychology faculty: a central challenge in the multicultural counseling movement.(Innovations in Multicultural Research)(Report)
June 22, 2008... The racial and gender composition of faculty departments at predominantly White colleges and universities within the United States is largely White and male (Trower & Chait, 2002). Female faculty members of color and Black faculty members are...
A 40-year review of multicultural counseling outcome research: outlining a future research agenda for the multicultural counseling movement.(Present & Future Challenges)(Report)
June 22, 2008... The multicultural counseling movement is clearly transforming the thinking and practices of many counselor educators, practitioners, researchers, and students in training. As several authors have noted in this special issue, the evolution of...
Reframing the DSM-IV-TR from a multicultural/social justice perspective.(Present & Future Challenges)(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)(Report)
June 22, 2008... The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2000) is the most widely used classification system of mental disorders in the United States. The DSM-IV-TR was...
New professional roles and advocacy strategies for school counselors: a multicultural/social justice perspective to move beyond the nice counselor syndrome.(Present & Future Challenges)
June 22, 2008... Numerous researchers have documented the wide disparity that exists in the academic achievement of students of color and economically impoverished students in comparison with their White middle-class counterparts (National Center for Education...
Extending a respectful word of thanks: concluding comments.(Present & Future Challenges)
June 22, 2008... Having completed the task of compiling this special issue of the Journal of Counseling & Development, we wanted to briefly comment on the finished product. In doing so, we address the strengths and limitations of this special issue as well as...