Experiential Approach for Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence (MULTICULTURAL ASPECTS OF COUNSELING SERIES) - Softcover

Fawcett, Mary L.; Evans, Kathy M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 141299652X ISBN 13: 9781412996525

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Experiential Approach for Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence by Mary L. Fawcett and Kathy M. Evans is an ideal companion text for students preparing for a career in counseling or mental health. Mental health workers-in-training need to learn to work effectively with clients from diverse backgrounds, and this text helps them develop these key skills by providing a ready-made resource of multicultural and diversity activities that instructors can assign to enhance student learning in class. It is applicable to all of the core courses in the counseling curriculum and it is developmentally designed to help students build multicultural and diversity competencies from the beginning level to an advanced level.

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About the Author

Mary L. Fawcett received her doctorate from the University of South Carolina and is currently a full professor at Winona State University. She has over 12 years of experience as an educator and counselor with interests in counselor training and supervision with an emphasis on multicultural competency development. She has developed and led several Guatemala Travel Study immersion courses for graduate counselor education students. She is published with articles in major journals about research in the following areas: gender and career development in secondary students, academic risk factors of K-12 students, and the effectiveness of immersion experiences on the multicultural competency development of counselor education students.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 141299652X
• ISBN 13: 9781412996525
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224