Becoming a Multiculturally Competent Counselor

Changming Duan, Ph.D. is a cisgender, female, heterosexual Chinese American psychologist and currently a professor in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education at University of Kansas.  Changming Duan grew up in China and received all her post graduate education in North America, including a doctoral degree in counseling psychology and social psychology from University of Maryland. She has over 20 years of experience in teaching counselor preparation programs. One of the courses that she has taught most consistently is the multicultural counseling class. She feels she is always a beginner in teaching this class. Her professional interest also includes researching counseling processes and outcome in various cultural contexts. Changming Duan has been invited to speak on topics related multicultural counseling and multicultural training for counselors by various organizations both nationally and internationally.   She travels back to China often conducting training and research. ?Changming Duan has authored or co-authored over 40 refereed professional articles and book chapters, with many in the area of cross cultural understanding of counseling and counseling processes. She is the recipient of many honors and awards, including Trustees’ Award for Excellence in Teaching and Diversifying Curriculum Award from University of Missouri Kansas City, and Travel Award from American Psychological Association.  Changming Duan has also been a licensed psychologist in the State of Missouri and Kansas.     Chris Brown, Ph.D. is a cisgender, heterosexual, middle-aged, female African American counseling psychologist who currently serves as interim dean of the School of Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), and is also professor in the School of Education’s Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology. She earned her doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from UMKC, a master’s degree in counseling from California State University, Long Beach, and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to her interim dean role she served as Chair of the Division of Counseling and Educational Psychology and also served as Coordinator of the Master’s program in Counseling and Guidance (Mental Health and Couples and Family). She has over 21 years of teaching in counselor preparation programs and over 32 years of experience providing counseling to culturally diverse populations. She is a licensed psychologist in Missouri and Kansas and provides consultation to various organizations, including continuing education workshops on ethics and professional issues to mental health professionals.              Chris Brown has authored/co-authored over 45 refereed journal articles, many of which have a multicultural focus. Among the several courses she has taught: ethics and professional issues in counseling, couples and family therapy, theories and methods of sex therapy, career development, assessment and counseling practicum, she infuses the important role of multiculturalism in her training initiatives. The focus of Chris Brown’s research is cultural dimensions of career development, gender transitions, and ethics and professional issues in counseling. She has received various acknowledgments and awards for her work, with the most recent being UMKC’s Lavender Award for Outstanding Faculty for her multicultural sensitivity and emphasis on training counseling students to embrace and understand the importance of individual and cultural diversity.  In her varied roles as educator, researcher, practitioner, and consultant, Chris Brown strives to generate knowledge that can be used to address social concerns and individual problems and is committed to educating and mentoring counseling students.

Section 1: Professional Counseling: A Cultural Occurrence
Chapter 1: Monocultural Context of Counseling as a Helping Profession
The Cultural and Value Foundations of Counseling in the United States
The Cultural and Value Foundations of Counseling in the United States
A Call for Multicultural Professional Identity Development in Transforming the Field of Counseling
Chapter 2: Demands for Multicultural Professional Counseling
The Presence and History of Cultural and Social Oppression
The Demographic changes in the United States
Immigration and Globalization
Necessary Multicultural Ethics
Chapter 3: Multicultural Movement – the Fourth Force
The Context and History of the Multicultural Movement
The Focus and Scope of Multicultural Counseling
A Necessary Multicultural Competency – Social Advocacy
Section 2: Counseling in the 21st Century: A multicultural Phenomenon
Chapter 4: Multicultural Contexts of Professional Counseling in the 21st Century
Cultural Context at the Individual Level
Cultural Context at the Societal Level
Cultural Context at the International Level
Chapter 5: Redefining and Renewing the Counseling Profession in the 21st Century
Redefining and Renewing: Now is the Time
Barriers to Multicultural Counseling
Effective Service to the Culturally Diverse: Redefining Counseling Practice
Effectively Serving the Culturally Diverse: A process of Renewing the Profession
Working with Cultural Diversity: A Basic Ethical Responsibility
Section 3:Becoming Multiculturally Competent
Chapter 6: Developing a Multicultural Identity
A model of multicultural Competence development
Challenges of multicultural identity development: dominant vs. subordinate group identities
Self-Assessment of multicultural self
Chapter 7: Understanding Social Oppression and Cultural Pluralism
Social Oppression: Results of Unearned Privileges by Dominant Groups
Social Oppression: Unjust, Unfair, and Damaging
Understanding the Culturally Diverse
Counselors’ Social and Professional Responsibility in Eliminating Oppression
Section 4:Exercising Multicultural Competencies: Working with the Culturally Diverse
Chapter 8 Working with Diversity in Racial, Ethnic, and Nationality Contexts
Understanding the cultural contexts of racially and ethnically diverse
Effect of racism, discrimination, and microaggression
Implication of cultural values difference
Cultural identity development of the racially and ethnically diverse
Assessment, Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 9 Working with Diversity in Gender and Sexual Orientation Contexts
Understanding Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Working Ethically and Effectively with Sexual Minorities
Chapter 10: Working with Diversity in Social Class Contexts
Social Class and Classism
Understanding the Social Context of the Poor
Social Class Identity, Values and Worldviews
Assessment, Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 11: Working With Diversity in Physical Ability
Including Disability Diversity: Developing Multicultural Competence
Chapter 12: Working with Diversity in Religion and Spirituality
Religion and Spirituality Defined
My Client is Religious or Spiritually Oriented, Shouldn’t I Refer My Client to the Clergy?
What Do We Know about the Religious/Spiritual Orientation of Counseling Professionals?
Religion and Spirituality in Counseling
Religion, Spirituality and Ethical Considerations
Assessing Religion and Spirituality: The Clinical Interview
When does Religion and Spirituality become Harmful or Pathological?
Section 5: Social Justice and Multicultural Counseling
Chapter 13: Role of Social justice in Counseling
Social Inequality
Victimizing effects of social inequality
Social Justice
Promoting a Socially-Responsive Approach of Counseling
Chapter 14: Developing Social Justice Counseling and Advocacy skills
Social justice competence development
Taking professional Responsibility of integrating social justice into service
Taking social responsibility – community advocacy for social justice
Good Ethical Practice in a Multicultural World
Section 6: Applying Multicultural Competencies: Case Examples
Chapter 15: Helping Jermaine feel “normal”
Chapter 16: Assisting Darryl and Samar to “fight fairly”