Nine professionals from the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA), a division of the American Counseling Association, will depart for an educational trip to Cuba later this month. The group, a mix of counselor practitioners, doctoral students and one counselor educator, will spend six days on the island, meeting with
Tag: Multiculturalism & Diversity
Multiculturalism & Diversity
The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the nation’s multiracial population will triple by 2060. That prognostication only heightens the long-standing need for counselors to better understand this population, say Kelley and Mark Kenney. The husband-and-wife counselor educators spearheaded development of the Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population, which were endorsed
There has been a good measure of animosity mixed into the complicated relationship between the United States and Cuba over the past half-century. Yet Eddie Moody, a counselor who has been making trips to Cuba for more than a decade, says one of the first things he saw on his
I grew up in a low-income housing project on the South Side of Chicago. I faced many challenges as a young girl in this homogenous and sometimes destructive community. Of the many things I experienced while growing up poor, I’d like to raise some awareness of how black girls continue
Coming on the heels of its successful annual conference and expo in March in Orlando, Florida, the American Counseling Association is turning its attention to another conference in a tropical locale. This one, however, will be across an ocean. The inaugural American Counseling Association-Asia Pacific Counseling Conference 2015, or ACA-APCC
The need for counselors to acknowledge and combine multiculturalism with social justice “cannot be overstated,” according to counselor educators and authors Manivong Ratts and Paul Pedersen. The two perspectives go hand-in-hand; counselors who don’t fully understand both can unintentionally harm their clients, Ratts and Pedersen write in the new edition
Husband-and-wife counselor educators Chris and Hande Briddick recently spent a one-year sabbatical in Turkey, joining the faculty of Bahçeşehir University (BAU). Although there to teach, the couple says they were in turn taught many things, from the connections forged with colleagues over tea and birthday cake to the thoughtful questions
It was a striking scene: Protesters, many of whom had been on the front lines of the unrest and turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, for more than 10 weeks, pausing to talk with a counselor and create a scene in a sand tray. At times, there were “heavy tears” as grief,
This fall marks the first time that there is a statistical “minority majority” in U.S. public schools, with students of color now surpassing the number of white students. That shift has been happening gradually for a number of years, according to the U.S. Department of Education, which notes that student
When addressing race-based topics in counselor trainings, have you noticed times when learners’ emotional reactions inhibited their abilities to absorb training material or your ability to instruct? If the answer is yes, know that you are not alone. Race-based trainings are not for the faint of heart — at least