Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence: A Systems Approach (2nd Edition) (Erford)

Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence gives graduate students preparing to become counselors€"and counselors new to their professions€"innovative, evidence-based guidance for becoming multiculturally competent counselors. Comprehensive, thoughtful, and in-depth, the book takes readers beyond general discussions of race and ethnicity into the realm of a broader, more complex view of multiculturalism and social advocacy in clients€ and trainees€ lives. Included are engaging, self-reflective activities, discussion questions, case inserts, practitioner and client perspectives, and study aids€"all designed to help readers see opportunities for experiential learning related to cultural diversity considerations and social advocacy issues within clients€ social systems.