Multicultural & Social Justice Competencies

In the AMCD Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, Section I: Counselor Self-Awareness, culturally skilled counselors are aware of?

• How clients’ cultural backgrounds have influenced their attitudes, biases, and values about psychological processes.

• How their own cultural backgrounds have influenced their attitudes, biases, and values about psychological processes.

• Clients’ values and beliefs about counselor awareness

• Definitions of normality and abnormality that impact values about psychological processes

According to the AMCD Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, “Privileged” counselors should be aware of?

• Marginalized clients’ mental health concerns

• Privileged clients’ mental health concerns

• How they may have directly or indirectly benefitted from individual, institutional, and cultural racism as outlined in identity development models.

• How they may have directly or indirectly benefitted from individual, institutional, and cultural racism as outlined in the ACA Code of Ethics.

According to the AMCD Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, culturally skilled counselors seek out educational, consultative, and training experiences to improve their effectiveness when working with culturally different groups. They must also recognize the limits of their competencies and employ the following strategies?

• Seek consultation

• Seek further training or education

• Refer out to more qualified individuals or resources

• Engage in one or a combination of all of the listed strategies

The four main sections of the AMCD Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies include:

• (I) Counselor Worldview, (II) Counselor Awareness of Client’s Worldview, (III) Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, (IV) Cultural Ethics

• There are only three sections: (I) Counselor Worldview, (II) Client Worldview, and (III) Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies

• (I) Counselor Self-Awareness, (II) Client Worldview, (III) Counseling Relationship, (IV) Counseling and Advocacy Interventions

• (I) Counselor Identity, (II) Client Identity, (III) Psychological Testing, (IV), Culturally Appropriate Interventions

Privileged and marginalized counselors take action to increase self-awareness of their social identities by taking action to

• Learn about their assumptions

• Seek out professional development opportunities

• Immerse themselves in their community

• All of the above

Multicultural and social justice competent counselors acknowledge that

• Should be comfortable in learning about privileged and marginalized clients

• Identity development influences the worldviews and lived experiences of privileged and marginalized clients

• Learning about clients’ privileged and marginalized status should be completed prior to providing professional service

• None of the above

Multicultural and social justice competent counselors do all the following except

• Acquire culturally responsive evaluation skills to analyze how historical events shape a client’s worldview

• Acquire culturally responsive skills to apply knowledge of identity development models

• Acquire culturally responsive skills to reframe clients’ stereotypes regarding other cultures

• Acquire culturally responsive conceptualization skills to explain to clients how status influences their culture

Multicultural and social justice competent counselors

• Seek informal opportunities to engage in discourse about historical events that shape the worldview of clients

• Take action by attending professional development training to learn how stereotypes influence clients

• Take action by immersing oneself in the communities where clients reside

• All of the above

Multicultural and social justice competent counselors take action by

• Educating clients on the effects oppression has on both privileged and marginalized clients

• Collaborating with clients to determine whether individual counseling or systems advocacy is needed with privileged and marginalized clients

• Collaborating with clients to identify the counselors cultural limitations

• All of the above

Multicultural and social justice competent counselors

• Avoid qualitatively based assessment tools due to inherent norming effects

• Approach all clients in the exact same manner to avoid implementing a biased approach

• Employ empowerment-based theories to address internalized privilege and oppression experienced by clients

• None of the above