Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Assessment, Education and Training, and Supervision [Paperback]

The contributors consider ways to evaluate counsellors for their awareness, knowledge and skills in working with a broad spectrum of populations. Chapters also examine in detail the pedagogical implications of establishing competencies, including training philosophies and models as well as course and curriculum development.In this volume, leading researchers and trainers in multicultural counselling and psychology address the issues of what makes a counsellor multiculturally competent and how to create more culturally competent counsellors.

The contributors consider ways to evaluate counsellors for their awareness, knowledge and skills in working with a broad spectrum of populations. Chapters also examine in detail the pedagogical implications of establishing competencies, including training philosophies and models as well as course and curriculum development.Foreword - Derald Wing Sue
PART ONE: ASSESSMENT OF MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE
Outcome of Training and the Philosophy of Assessment - Gargi Roysicar Sodowsky, Phoebe Y Kuo-Jackson and Gary J Loya
Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Portfolio Assessment of Multicultural Counseling Competence - Hardin L K Coleman
How `Multiculturalism' Obscures Race and Culture as Differential Aspects of Counseling - Janet E Helms and Tina Q Richardson
PART TWO: MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Sex Matters - Ruth E Fassinger and Beth Sperber Richie
Gender and Sexual Orientation in Training for Multicultural Counseling Competency
Multicultural Counseling Training - Joseph G Ponterotto
A Competency Model and NalS.