Is Multicultural Counseling Competence Outdated or Underdeveloped, or in Need of Refinement? A Response to Ridley et al.

Vandiver, Beverly J.; Delgado‐Romero, Edward A.; Liu, William Ming

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“…Training based on these MCC covered a variety of important identities of clients, with some identities receiving more attention than others. Originally, the focus on race and ethnicity was the priority of these multicultural counseling competencies (Vandiver et al 2021).…”

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“…Although there is a clear push in the counseling field for considering the individual holistically in relation to the intersectionality of identities, the fear and challenge of bringing in spirituality and religion looms over counselors-in-training and those training them. This struggle is not surprising, given spirituality and religion were traditionally considered "taboo" in counseling and other mental health fields (Bergin 1980) and the focus of the MCC was originally on ethnicity and race (Sue et al 1982(Sue et al , 1992Vandiver et al 2021). Not all that long ago, almost 40% of surveyed counselors-in-training noted being taught directly or indirectly that they should not be addressing spirituality and religion in counseling (Adams 2012).…”

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“…It is essential for professional counselors to know the evidencebased interventions that are applicable to working with spirituality and religion (Mintert et al 2020;Gonzalez-Voller et al 2020). The inclusion of spirituality and religion in the MSJCC training demonstrates a focus on what is salient to a client to impact therapeutic change through the counseling relationship (Ridley et al 2021a;Vandiver et al 2021).…”

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The Value of Adapting Counseling to Client’s Spirituality and Religion: Evidence-Based Relationship Factors

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Nelson

2021

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There is a strong tradition of attention to relationship factors in the field of counseling. The research on the importance of the relationship and adapting to client factors continues to grow, supporting the importance of professional multicultural competence. The field of counseling, specifically within the United States context, has focused on Multicultural Counseling Competencies with more recent emphasis on social justice through the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies. Within these competencies, spirituality and religion are mentioned as multicultural components to consider as potentially salient to clients. Yet, there has been less emphasis on ways to adapt counseling to a client’s spirituality and religion compared to other multicultural components of one’s identity, such as race, gender, and culture. Historically, a lack of training, fear of causing offense, or concerns about influencing clients, resulted in clients’ spirituality and religion being overlooked far too often in counseling. Despite this tendency, recent clinical evidence on relational responsiveness identifies the adaptation of counseling to a client’s spirituality and religion as highly effective. In this article, the authors discuss how adapting counseling to a client’s spirituality and religion, in relation to all multicultural factors salient to the client, enhances relational responsiveness and treatment effectiveness. The authors also discuss the implications for training, supervision, and practice.

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“…I do not remember a time where we would start a client case conceptualization with the question, “How has systemic racism shaped the environment for this person, and how is it manifesting in this person’s current life?” Instead, these questions and concerns about race, racism, and experiences with inequities were often used to ameliorate a fairly traditional case conceptualization of the individual, regardless of their racial identities. I started to see that, potentially, multicultural competencies and cultural humility are theoretical adaptations—racialized psychological technologies—that work to adapt our traditional psychotherapy approaches and continue the relevance of these theoretical frameworks (Vandiver et al, 2021). These adaptive racialized technologies help produce generous revised renditions of traditional psychotherapy theories.…”

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Places that Feel Racist: How the Built Environment Re/Creates White Racial Spaces and Time

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2022

The Counseling Psychologist

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In this 2022 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship keynote, I discuss the importance of understanding how our built-environment and our physical spaces and structures are intertwined with my conceptualization of systemic racism. I describe the problems with how we study racism, systemic racism, and context, and the limitations of how we have adapted traditional psychotherapy theories. In this paper, I propose an examination of structural racism and the ways in which white spaces, white property, and white time work to displace, dispossess, and dislocate black and other non-black people of color. This constant racism within white spaces allows us to understand what may be creating the psychological and physiological stresses many people of color experience. In better understanding systemic racism, I hope we can focus our critical scholarship on centralizing the humanity of black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, and other people of color.

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“…difficult to learn compared to the other foundational counseling skills-and one's intent to learn alone does not guarantee competency will be achieved (e.g., Milan & Bridges, 2019;Vandiver et al, 2021). Within a racially heterogeneous sample, Zhang and McCoy (2008) found that although therapists endorse the value of multiculturally informed counseling interventions, such as bringing up racial differences with their clients, a smaller percentage of them actually follow through with these interventions.…”

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Concerns about counseling racial minority clients: Ethnocultural empathy, insight, and multicultural intervention self-efficacy.

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Training and Education in Professional Psychology

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In this study, we examined (a) whether ethnocultural empathy mediated the association between concerns about counseling a racial minority client and multicultural intervention self-efficacy, (b) whether insight moderated the association between concerns about counseling a racial minority client and ethnocultural empathy, and (c) whether insight moderated the above mediation (indirect) effect after controlling for multicultural social desirability within a sample of racially heterogeneous trainees. A total of 130 graduate students from Master's-and Ph.D.-level counseling psychology and counseling-related programs across the U.S. participated in an online survey. Results from PROCESS supported the hypotheses. Ethnocultural empathy partially mediated the relationship between concerns about counseling a racial minority client and multicultural intervention self-efficacy. Insight was a significant moderator of the association between concerns about counseling a racial minority client and ethnocultural empathy. Specifically, the negative association between concerns about counseling a racial minority client and ethnocultural empathy was significant for those with lower insight, but not significant for those with higher insight. The index of the moderated mediation was significant, which implied that insight moderated the mediation (indirect) effect of concerns about seeing a racial minority client on multicultural intervention self-efficacy through ethnocultural empathy. Multicultural social desirability was controlled for in regards to the above results. Public Significance StatementTrainees with higher concerns about seeing a racial minority client are likely to have greater difficulty understanding their client, which is then associated with lower multicultural counseling self-efficacy. This phenomenon is especially salient for trainees with lower insight. Clinical instructors should tailor interventions to increase trainees' levels of insight as well as their ability to understand those who are racially different from them.

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Is Multicultural Counseling Competence Outdated or Underdeveloped, or in Need of Refinement? A Response to Ridley et al.

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

The Value of Adapting Counseling to Client’s Spirituality and Religion: Evidence-Based Relationship Factors

The Value of Adapting Counseling to Client’s Spirituality and Religion: Evidence-Based Relationship Factors

Places that Feel Racist: How the Built Environment Re/Creates White Racial Spaces and Time

Concerns about counseling racial minority clients: Ethnocultural empathy, insight, and multicultural intervention self-efficacy.

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