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Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies

Guidelines for the Counseling Profession

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ID4454830
AuthorsManivong J Ratts (Department of Leadership and Professional Studies Seattle University, corresponding author), Anneliese A Singh (0000-0001-5606-962X, Department of Counseling and Human Development Services University of Georgia Athens), Sylvia C Nassar‐mcmillan (0000-0002-3803-2660, North Carolina State University), Sylvia Nassar‐mcmillan (College of Education North Carolina State University), Kent Butler, S Kent Butler (Department of Child, Family, and Community Sciences University of Central Florida Orlando), Julian Rafferty Mccullough (Counselor Education and Supervision program Georgia State University), Rafe Mccullough (0000-0002-0685-7457, Georgia State University)
Year2016
Volume44
Issue1
Pages28-48
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Multicultural Counseling and Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0883-8534 • E-ISSN: 2161-1912
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jmcd.12035
OpenAlexW2229261882
LanguageEN
Citations received330
References cited66

In 2014, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) appointed a committee to revise the Multicultural Counseling Competencies developed by Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis inand operationalized by Arredondo et al. in. This article reflects the updated competencies, titled the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough,), which were endorsed by AMCD on June 29, 2015, and by the American Counseling Association on July 20, 2015. A conceptual framework of the MSJCC visually depicts the relationships among the competencies' key constructs: multicultural and social justice praxis, quadrants, domains, and competencies. Implications are discussed.En 2014, la Asociación para la Consejería y el Desarrollo Multicultural (AMCD, en sus siglas en inglés) formó un comité para revisar las Competencias en Consejería Multicultural desarrolladas por Sue, Arredondo y McDavis en 1992 y operacionalizadas por Arredondo et al. en 1996. Este artículo refleja las competencias actualizadas, denominadas Competencias en Consejería Multicultural y de Justicia Social (MSJCC, en sus siglas en inglés; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015a), que fueron avaladas por la AMCD el 29 de junio de 2015 y por la Asociación Americana de Consejería el 20 de julio de 2015. Un marco conceptual de las MSJCC muestra visualmente las relaciones entre los constructos principales de las competencias: la praxis multicultural y en justicia social, los cuadrantes, dominios y competencias. Se discuten las implicaciones

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