Reflections of a Multicultural Counseling Course: A Qualitative Study with Counseling Students and Counselors
Articles > Article · 2014
Authors: Dilek Yelda KAĞNICI
Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, WoS, 2014, vol 14, pp 53-62
DOI: 10.12738/estp.2014.1.1965
Summary
influence over the last decades. The reflections of these influences in the area of counseling have been observed mainly in the provision of counseling services. Providing counseling services to clients of different cultural backgrounds has required extra competencies beyond basic counseling competencies. As a result of this necessity, the American Counseling Association mandated that multicultural counseling competencies training and counselor program curricula be integrated with multicultural counseling courses (Utsey, Gernat, & Bolden, 2003 as cited in Chae, Foley, & Chae, 2006).