Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development最新文献

Despite the need for culturally competent counselors, there is sparse literature on ways counselor educators navigate the processes associated with multicultural training. Using post-intentional phenomenology, researchers interviewed nine counselor educators about their experience teaching multicultural courses and the challenges they faced in preparing future counselors. Themes related to burden, navigating limited support, the dynamic nature of the course, and achieving multicultural training aims emerged. Implications for counseling programs, academic institutions, and the profession are discussed.

Counselors and other mental health professionals use Instagram for brand-building and disseminating information on mental health and counseling resources. This study was an exploratory mixed-methods analysis of Asian American/Pacific Islander mental health edu-fluencers to understand their post content and user engagement over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We describe post content and present analyses of variance results to compare user engagement. Implications of social media use are discussed for mental health professionals and researchers.

Researchers have increasingly identified a growing concern in the lack of attention given to factors intertwined with the mental health and well-being of Arab-American youth. To circumvent this problem, we applied a community-based participatory research (CBPR) design to a sample of Arab-American youth with the mean age of 13.72 years. We discuss the implications for professional counseling and other mental health interventions with Arab-American youth, as well as provide directions for future research.

As a subset of a larger mixed-methods study of Black counselor wellness, a sequential explanatory research design was used to explore the relationship between the Strong Black Woman (SBW) schema and wellness in Black women counselors. Regression results indicated the SBW schema was a statistically significant predictor of wellness. Grounded in critical Black feminist theory, an interpretative phenomenological analysis of focus group data identified five themes of wellness and coping for Black women counselors.

Racism and its effects adversely affect the experiences of Black males within higher education. Despite efforts to address racial and gender gaps, Black males remain grossly underrepresented within counselor training programs. They report feeling isolated and experience relational challenges. In this phenomenological study of 10 African American male counseling students’ interactions with counseling faculty, several themes related to their racial identity surfaced from the data. Implications for counselor educators and counselor education programs are offered.

Extending the study of Shaw et al., this study aimed to determine whether early therapeutic alliance, baseline client symptom severity, and client race predicted treatment duration and post client symptom severity. Participants (N = 75) were clients at a community mental health clinic. Baseline client symptom severity, but not early therapeutic alliance, predicted post client symptom severity; client race predicted treatment duration. Collectively, early therapeutic alliance, baseline client symptom severity, and client race predicted post client symptom severity.

Optimal conceptual theory (OCT) is a holistic model espousing a person's reality is simultaneously spiritual and material, encapsulating biological, social, cognitive, and spiritual elements, conceptualized through an Africana worldview. Although created over 31 years ago, very little literature exists examining OCT as a viable counseling theory with clients. The purpose of this article is to correct that trend and provide a brief case example illustrating how to utilize OCT in a counseling setting.

This article describes radical Black behaviorism and how it may be utilized during counseling to address the effects of racial microaggressions among African American clients. A case illustration is provided, and implications for broader societal change are discussed.

The current study evaluated the validity of the broaching attitudes and behavior survey-clients (BABS-C), a self-report measure that examined minoritized clients’ perceptions of their counselors’ ability to discuss issues of race, ethnicity, and culture during treatment. A series of confirmatory factor analyses suggested that the BABS-C framework and its subconstructs achieved excellent model fit and stable factor structures. The measurement invariance was examined with seven covariates using multiple indicators and multiple cause methods. Implications for counseling research and practice are discussed.