Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development articles from December 2004

Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development archives from December 2004

Racial and ethnic minority clients' utilization of a university counseling center: an archival study.
December 1, 2004... The utilization of a university counseling center's services by non-international racial and ethnic minority students was examined via an archival approach. A total of 242 participants were included. Data were examined utilizing ANOVA,...

Definitional ceremonies: integrating community into multicultural counseling sessions.
December 1, 2004... Definitional Ceremonies are used as a forum for integrating members of diverse cultures into multicultural counseling sessions. The authors provide a philosophical foundation, implementation process, and excerpts from a typescript of a recent...

Identity development and multicultural competency.
December 1, 2004... This study investigated the relationship of identity development, measured by the Self-identity Inventory (SII), and universal-diverse orientation (UDO) to multicultural counseling competence. After controlling for personal identity variables,...

Low-income Latinos and dropout: strategies to prevent dropout.
December 1, 2004... This article explores factors historically and currently associated with dropout from counseling services by low-income Latino clients and the organizational barriers that continue to prevent Latinos from staying in the counseling relationship....

Cross-cultural supervision: guiding the conversation toward race and ethnicity.
December 1, 2004... The following article examines the importance of meaningful discussion of race and ethnicity in cross-cultural supervision. They identify common errors in cross-cultural supervision. Through a case illustration, the authors showcase problems...

American Indian perspectives of Euro-American counseling behavior.
December 1, 2004... Thirteen American Indians participated in 17 counseling interviews with Euro-American counselors. The study analyzed interviews of American Indian participants using Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR). Counselor trustworthiness, which was...

Making research accessible to participants with disabilities.
December 1, 2004... People with disabilities often are precluded from research by accessibility problems. This article explores what it really means to make research accessible, and provides suggestions for including people with 2 types of disabilities. Eight...

Centralizing feminism and multiculturalism in counseling: introduction to the special section.
December 1, 2004... In October, 1998, approximately 175 women and a few men gathered in Michigan for a pioneering 3-day conference dedicated to exploring the integration and centralizing of feminism and multiculturalism in counseling. Sponsored by the Section for...

Feminism and multiculturalism: parallels and intersections.
December 1, 2004... Increasingly, the psychological literature has begun to address both feminist and multicultural concerns, although these fields have rarely incorporated each others' diverse and vibrant ideas. This article explores the connections between...

Feminist and multicultural collaboration in counseling supervision: voices from two African American women.
December 1, 2004... This article highlights 2 African-American women participants' unique experiences and perspectives in the Supervision and Training work group at the Division 17's Section for the Advancement of Women (SAW) Michigan conference. Differences...

Collaborative consultation: international applications of a multicultural feminist approach.
December 1, 2004... This article describes a multicultural feminist collaborative consultation international approach in postcommunist societies in transition. The authors address how Western and Eastern divergent values can impact the consultation process....

Counseling practice with feminist-multicultural perspectives.
December 1, 2004... Aiming to integrate feminist and multicultural contributions to counseling, 6 values of counseling are defined and elucidated: a focus on strengths, the concept of the optimally functioning person, sensitivity to life span and career...

Power and responsibility in therapy: integrating feminism and multiculturalism.
December 1, 2004... The integration of feminist and multicultural approaches to psychotherapy, called for many times, has not yet materialized. This article reviews possible reasons this integration has not taken place and offers an approach to integration based...

Feminist teaching in counselor education: promoting multicultural understanding.
December 1, 2004... Feminist teaching is suggested as a promising pedagogy for the development of counselors' multicultural understanding. The ways in which feminist teaching principles and practices are useful in multicultural counseling training, as well as...

Toward integrating feminist and multicultural pedagogies.
December 1, 2004... This article summarizes major themes associated with 3 literatures regarding pedagogy and training about diversity issues: (a) the diversity feminisms, (b) the multicultural education literature, and (c) the literature on multicultural...

A multicultural feminist model of mentoring.
December 1, 2004... This article identifies ways professionals perpetuate misperceptions about mentoring when engaging in traditional methods of mentoring. Fassinger's feminist model of mentoring is expanded by incorporating multicultural elements into the model....

Acculturation and an ESL program: a service learning project.
December 1, 2004... The author describes and evaluates her experience participating in a service-learning project in a Human Diversity course designed to foster multicultural competence in clinical psychology doctoral trainees. The project took place at an English...