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Examining Multicultural Pedagogy in Counselor Programs: Recommendations for Enhanced Clinical Competency

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Across helping professions, the inclusion of antiracist pedagogy and multicultural training is integral to culturally responsive practice. Despite this, graduate trainees frequently report a lack of self-efficacy in essential multicultural competencies, leaving them ill-equipped to effectively treat and address the unique needs of marginalized client populations. To address these gaps, more effective pedagogical approaches are needed. In this chapter, we outline recommendations to enhance current multicultural training and antiracist pedagogical practices, thereby better-equipping trainees with essential multicultural and social justice competencies needed to be competent and ethical clinicians.

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    Taylor J. Irvine & Adriana C. Labarta

  2. Barry University, Miami, FL, USA

    Danna Demezier

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  1. Department of Educational Studies, Counselor Education Program, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Kaprea F. Johnson

  2. Department of Counseling and Human Services, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Narketta M. Sparkman-Key

  3. Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Alan Meca

  4. Department of Counseling and Human Services, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

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Irvine, T.J., Labarta, A.C., Demezier, D. (2022). Examining Multicultural Pedagogy in Counselor Programs: Recommendations for Enhanced Clinical Competency. In: Johnson, K.F., Sparkman-Key, N.M., Meca, A., Tarver, S.Z. (eds) Developing Anti-Racist Practices in the Helping Professions: Inclusive Theory, Pedagogy, and Application. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95451-2_12

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