Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development最新文献

Articles accepted for publication in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (JMCD) from 1998 to 2017 were reviewed to provide a systematic, quantitative study of journal content by identifying patterns of what is published and who publishes in the JMCD. Trends over time in author characteristics (e.g., number, gender, employment setting, nation of domicile) and article content (e.g., type, topic, design, participant type, sample size, statistical procedures) were analyzed and described.

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore school counselors’ experiences working with immigrants. Based on this exploration, the author proposes a model that explains the process of becoming effective school counselors in working with immigrants. This model relies on social justice, and it consists of four developmental stages: superficial awareness, growing awareness, application, and culturally competent school counselor. Implications for school counselors are provided.

Counselors (N = 49) interested in working with the military population described what is needed to feel competent and confident counseling this population in a mixed-methods research study. Findings suggest counselors do not believe their programs are preparing them to work with this population. Participants indicate strategies which would increase their ability to work with the military. Results provide implications for counseling programs on how they can better prepare students to work effectively with this population and increase the employment rates in serving the military.

Upward of 80% of Black people speak some variant of African American English (AAE). The counseling profession is a language-oriented form of help seeking, yet the relevance of linguistic diversity in a counseling context is largely absent from scholarly literature. Using Critical Race Theory as a theoretical framework, the authors provide a definition of AAE, as well as historical and sociopolitical contextual information about AAE. Important clinical implications for working effectively with AAE speakers are identified.

We explored 10 novice school counselors’ experiences working to close the achievement gap with low-income adolescents through interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results suggest that school counselors experienced their role in closing the achievement gap with low-income adolescents as one of (a) systemic discouragement, (b) interactions with students’ home environment, and (c) parallel process advocacy. Implications for school counselors, counselor educators, and future research are included.

This manuscript presents urban African American adolescent males’ (UAAM) experiences and perceptions of violence in low-income public schools. Findings derived from a qualitative study that investigated the meanings and experiences of violence among UAAM. Nine and six UAAM participated in in-depth phenomenological interviews and a focus group, respectively. Findings revealed that UAAM experience and perceive school as a site for criminalizing their behaviors, peer fights, and being undereducated by teachers. Implications for counselors, educators, and service providers are discussed.

While research exists on the experiences of African American counselor educators, little research has explored student perceptions of this population in the classroom setting. This study used an interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore the experiences of White counseling students who have taken a course with an African American counselor educator. Two themes were identified related to racial perception. Implications for counselor education leadership, African American counselor educators, and program curriculum are discussed.

This study compared the mental health status of Asian international students (AIS) in the United States with American students and other international students by analyzing 4 years of data (2011–2014) from the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment. No significant differences were found in the ***AIS’ psychological distress, but their self-reported self-harm ideation and behavior were higher than the other two groups. Predictors of psychological distress were analyzed and implications for stakeholders are offered.

Ethical decision-making is minimally addressed in counseling supervision literature. Supervisors or color may find challenges given the cultural context of both supervision and ethical decision-making. The authors interviewed six supervisors of color about ethical decision-making in supervision. The authors noted four themes: difficulty navigating culture in ethical decision-making, training limitations, “ethical decision-making is for White folks,” and making sense of ethical decision-making in supervision. Implications for supervisor preparation, practice, and research are discussed.

Qualitative research was conducted with eight formerly incarcerated Black men on their experiences with what counseling scholar Anderson Franklin has dubbed “invisibility syndrome.” Invisibility syndrome is “an inner struggle with the feeling that one's talents, abilities, personality, and worth are not valued or even recognized because of prejudice and racism.” Results found five superordinate themes, including painfulness of invisibility, pervasiveness of invisibility, awareness of power relations, coping with invisibility, and importance of healing. Implications for counseling formerly incarcerated Black men are provided.