Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development最新文献

The need for culturally affirming mental health interventions for Latine communities has been documented in the literature. Most of this literature centers around best practices, barriers to care, and Latine cultural values. Although much of this literature calls for providing services that acknowledge the specific needs of these communities and value ancestral knowledge, there is a void in the literature when exploring liberatory mental health interventions. Therefore, the present manuscript aims to offer readers a five-stage counseling model centered on the decolonization process. The model integrates the principles of liberation psychology as interventions and outcomes, beginning with the stages of decolonization presented by Enriquez and further developed by Laenui. Furthermore, the model unpacks the principles of liberation psychology, such as deideologization, and provides bases to challenge the dominant social forces that shape realities. In addition, liberation psychology approaches imply Native counseling approaches, indicating that counselors must be familiar with precolonial cultures. The manuscript ends with recommendations for practitioners and implications for the counseling field, including the need to acknowledge trauma, given that colonization was a violent event.

This special issue focuses on culturally affirming and liberatory mental health theories and approaches with Latine/x clients and their respective communities. Grounded in the cultural traditions of Latine/x communities, the articles in this special issue move beyond discussing the challenges Latine/x clients face in accessing mental health services to providing practical guidance for addressing oppressive systems. As a resurgent effort to dismantle the long-standing effects of racism on the Latine/x community, this special issue also offers a strength-based model of radical healing.

The purpose of this conceptual article is to explore the perceptions of Black male veterans regarding counseling for posttraumatic stress disorder. This will build upon previous research about this population by referencing the invisibility syndrome theory. A case illustration will integrate the theory with a composite of Black veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder. Implications and limitations for working with veteran Black men will be proposed.

Prioritizing healing for Latinx youth involves more than increased access to mental health resources. Community-based educators are articulating a vision of healing justice that combines psychological healing and social change. In this paper, we draw on 2 years of collaborative community-engaged co-design with youth and young adults of color to propose a framework for healing justice in youth development and education spaces. We discuss the relevance of this healing justice paradigm for approaches to counseling Latinx youth.

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.