Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development最新文献

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.

This study explored the experiences of affectional and gender minority students at CACREP accredited counseling programs housed within conservative Christian institutions (CCIs) and the damage caused by the discriminatory environments there. The results highlight the opportunity and responsibility that CCIs have to both protect these vulnerable student populations and provide models for them as well as the need for the counseling field to align the expectations of practitioners with the expectations placed upon training programs.

This transcendental phenomenological study described the lived experiences impacting career development among Black women in counselor education specializing in rehabilitation counseling. Womanism centralize their voices in this inquiry, while social cognitive career theory enabled more culturally informed interpretation of their experiences. The findings facilitate correct placement of this group into the literature on employment, career development, and counselor education, and can inform policy changes, curriculum, and interventions to promote diversity and equity in the field.

This qualitative study explored the experiences of Latine college students with their high school counselors about community cultural wealth. The study aimed to understand how high school counselors cultivated Latine students’ navigational, aspirational, linguistic, familial, social, and resistant capital. Data were collected through semistructured interviews with eight Latine college students attending a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The findings revealed that high school counselors supported Latine students’ navigational and aspirational capital but did not cultivate their linguistic, familial, social, and resistant capital. Implications for practice include the need for culturally appropriate interventions, advocacy for better student–counselor ratios, and using the ASCA National Model and Empowerment Model to design interventions that cultivate Latine students’ community cultural wealth.

Limited studies examine the impact of multicultural counseling and training conceptual models on the experiences of community clients. The Community Counseling, Education, and Research Center (CCERC) model is designed to meet community client needs for counseling services and training needs of counseling students through multiculturalism, love ethic, and trauma sensitivity. A thematic analysis of client responses about their experience of the model revealed that counseling was validating, positive, meaningful, and helpful. Implications and recommendations for future research are provided.

This study aimed to understand Brazilian immigrant parents' experience and needs using an explanatory sequential design with two phases: survey and structured interviews. The results identified several challenges these parents face, the most prevalent being a lack of social support, as well as cultural values and parenting styles. These findings are important for informing counselors and other professionals working with this community how to better develop intervention and advocacy tools tailored to their unique needs.