Multicultural Counseling Competencies

Individual and Organizational Development

Derald Wing Sue, Robert T. Carter, J. Manuel Casas, Nadya A. Fouad, Allen E. Ivey, Margaret Jensen, Teresa LaFromboise, Jeanne E. Manese, Joseph G. Ponterotto, Ena Vazquez-Nutall

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1998
• Print ISBN: 9780803971318, 9780803971301
• eBook ISBN: 9781506319483
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Multicultural Counseling Competencies is a state-of-the-art book integrating the literature and work on multicultural counseling competencies. It draws out implications for individual, professional, and institutional development by identifying the characteristics related to culturally competent mental health care. As such, it has relevance for practitioners who will increasingly encounter client populations who differ from them in terms of race, culture, and ethnicity; it suggests how the mental health profession needs to alter its practices to fit the needs of the culturally different in our society; and it advocates changes in mental health policy, programs, and organization. In a very systematic manner, the text provides a working definition of "multiculturalism" from which counselors, therapists, and social workers can ground their awareness, knowledge, and skills. It presents a new concept called "ethnocentric monoculturalism" and traces how it has inundated our society and the mental health professions. Written by leaders in the field of multicultural counseling, Multicultural Counseling Competencies is a landmark volume in clinical and counseling psychology, educational psychology, gender studies, nursing, social work, psychology, health services, interpersonal violence, and ethnic studies.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword: Crafting Life Course Studies
• Preface
• 1. What Is Multiculturalism and Multicultural Counseling and Therapy?
• 2. Ethnocentric Monoculturalism
• 3. The Profession’s Response to Multiculturalism
• 4 The Multicultural Counseling Competencies
• 5. Understanding the Euro-American Worldview
• 6. Understanding Racial/Ethnic Minority Worldviews
• 7. Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Developing Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies
• 8. Multicultural Organizational Development: Lessons From the Community Mental Health Movement
• 9. Multicultural Organizational Development: Evolving Toward Organizational Cultural Competence
• 10. Implementing Personal, Professional, and Organizational Multicultural Competence
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors