Note: Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. Copyright 2015 By M.J. Ratts, A.A. Singh, S. Nassar-McMillan, S.K. Butler, & J.R. McCullough.
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In 2014, Dr. Ratts chaired the
Special Committee on the Multicultural Counseling Competencies commissioned by the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development, a division of the American Counseling Association. This committee was charged with updating the Multicultural Counseling Competencies developed by Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis (1992). This work led to the development of the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies, which were endorsed by the AMCD Executive
Council on June 29, 2015 and the American Counseling Association on July 20, 2015.
The Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC), which revises the Multicultural Counseling Competencies (MCC) developed by Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis (1992) offers counselors a framework to implement multicultural and social justice competencies into counseling theories, practices, and research. A conceptual framework of the MSJCC is provided to illustrate a visual map of the relationship between the constructs and competencies being articulated within the MSJCC. Moreover, quadrants are used to highlight the intersection of identities and the dynamics of power, privilege, and oppression that influence the counseling relationship. Developmental domains reflect the different layers that lead to multicultural and social justice competence: (1) counselor self-awareness, (2) client worldview, (3) counseling relationship, and (4) counseling and advocacy interventions. Embedded within the first three developmental domains of the MSJCC are the following aspirational competencies: attitudes and beliefs, knowledge, skills, and action (AKSA). The socioecological model is incorporated within the counseling and advocacy interventions domain to provide counselors a multilevel framework for individual counseling and social justice advocacy.
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Authors: Manivong J. Ratts and Arie T. Greenleaf
Date: Sept. 2017
From: Professional School Counseling(Vol. 21, Issue 1B)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Document Type: Report
Length: 6,081 words
Lexile Measure: 1360L
DOI: //dx.doi.org/10.1177/2156759X18773582
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@article{Ratts2016MulticulturalAS, title={Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Guidelines for the Counseling Profession.}, author={Manivong J. Ratts and Anneliese A Singh and Sylvia C. Nassar-McMillan and S. Kent Butler and Julian Rafferty McCullough}, journal={Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development}, year={2016}, volume={44}, pages={28-48} }
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 in 1992 and operationalized by Arredondo et al. in 1996. This article reflects the updated competencies, titled the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015a), which were endorsed by AMCD on June 29, 2015, and by the American…
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