As Chair of the Diversity Committee for Division 49, I wanted to focus my columns on building
multicultural competency in group therapy practices with an emphasis on providing something useful to the practitioner.
To continue the plan to focus my columns on building
multicultural competency in group therapy practices, with an emphasis on providing something useful to the practitioner, I'd like to highlight some emergent theory regarding facilitating multicultural and social justice dialogues in group work.
She has also written the introduction to the section on multicultural group work in the Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy (2004, 2014), as well as authored and co-authored book chapters on «cultural biographies» (2009) and
multicultural competencies in group work (1996).
This program was a symposium chaired by Dr. Eric Chen entitled Evidence - Based Practice and
Multicultural Competencies in Group Therapy: Multiple Perspectives.
Sailing the Seven Seas of
Multicultural Competencies in Family Therapy by Marilia Baker, MSW, LMFT Spring 2008, Phoenix How Can I Forgive You?
Not exact matches
Much of the focus
in multicultural efforts
in schools has been at the teacher level, but here we try to push candidates to think about how the school must develop this
competency as well.
In building on their extant
multicultural competency, students will cultivate greater knowledge, awareness, and skills to provide culture - and gender - sensitive clinical practice.
An analysis of their discourse resulted
in the identification of four challenges inherent
in the use of virtual field experiences to develop
multicultural competencies:
It is our contention that technology mediated field experiences, such as the one described
in this article, can also assist
in the development of these
multicultural competencies.
She is a skilled consultant, facilitator, coach and speaker
in the areas of diversity and inclusion strategy,
multicultural competency, leadership development, and talent management, with expertise
in managing and leveraging diverse talent.
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NOTE:
IN 2009, NCDA updated these Career Counseling
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Some of his many contributions
in this area include: creating innovative group programming for International Students at the University of Florida, which evolved into a specialty training program for Counseling and Wellness Center psychology interns; creating two groups that run each semester and that address limited campus resources related to supporting Mandarin speaking International Students; and providing supervision, training, and mentorship to interns
in order to assist them
in increasing their
multicultural competency related to working with diverse populations
in group therapy.
(a) Document a minimum of twenty - four hours of academic preparation or board approved continuing education coursework
in counselor supervision training including training six hours
in each area as follows: (i) Assessment, evaluation and remediation which includes initial, formative and summative assessment of supervisee knowledge, skills and self - awareness; components of evaluation e.g. evaluation criteria and expectations, supervisory procedures, methods for monitoring (both direct and indirect observation) supervisee performance, formal and informal feedback mechanisms, and evaluation processes (both summative and formative), and processes and procedures for remediation of supervisee skills, knowledge, and personal effectiveness and self - awareness; (ii) Counselor development which includes models of supervision, learning models, stages of development and transitions
in supervisee / supervisor development, knowledge and skills related to supervision intervention options, awareness of individual differences and learning styles of supervisor and supervisee, awareness and acknowledgement of cultural differences and
multicultural competencies needed by supervisors, recognition of relational dynamics
in the supervisory relationship, and awareness of the developmental process of the supervisory relationship itself; (iii) Management and administration which includes organizational processes and procedures for recordkeeping, reporting, monitoring of supervisee's cases, collaboration, research and evaluation; agency or institutional policies and procedures for handling emergencies, case assignment and case management, roles and responsibilities of supervisors and supervisees, and expectations of supervisory process within the institution or agency; institutional processes for managing multiple roles of supervisors, and summative and formative evaluation processes; and (iv) Professional responsibilities which includes ethical and legal issues
in supervision includes dual relationships, competence, due process
in evaluation, informed consent, types of supervisor liability, privileged communication, consultation, etc.; regulatory issues include Ohio laws governing the practice of counseling and counseling supervision, professional standards and credentialing processes
in counseling, reimbursement eligibility and procedures, and related institutional or agency procedures.