ACA -CCPA 2016 Conference & Expo

ID #348-Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Profession (Room 514AB)

02 Apr 16
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

Tracks: Multicultural and International Issues, Social Justice

Speaker(s): S. Butler, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida; Sylvia Nassar-McMillan, Professor and Program Coordinator, Counselor Educcation, North Carolina State University; Anneliese Singh, Associate Professor, The University of Georgia; Julian McCullough, Doctoral Student, Georgia State University; Manivong Ratts

This session provides an overview of the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies that were recently endorsed by AMCD and ACA. These competencies reflect a departure from the 1992 multicultural competencies in significant ways, including attention to how counselors from marginalized backgrounds might work with clients with multiple privilege statuses and the merging of multicultural and social justice as foundational aspects of counseling and advocacy.