Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competency Research: Opportunities for Innovation

The authors describe the ways in which the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar‐McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) can be viewed from a human rights framework and as the latest iteration in the long history of the multicultural and social justice counseling competency movement. MSJCC implementation and integration are explored, and recommendations for innovating the MSJCC are described.

Section: Future Directions For the Msjccmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Past Guides the Future: Implementing the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies

Singh

Nassar-McMillan

Arredondo³

et al. 2020

“… Provide research and other mentorship. The counseling profession is obligated to produce strong researchers (see Hays, 2020, in this special issue). In addition to the innovative practices offered by Hays (2020), we need to discover ways to mentor and support emerging practitioners and researchers to become skillful at their respective craft and steeped in the MSJCC model and its complexities.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The counseling profession is obligated to produce strong researchers (see Hays, 2020, in this special issue). In addition to the innovative practices offered by Hays (2020), we need to discover ways to mentor and support emerging practitioners and researchers to become skillful at their respective craft and steeped in the MSJCC model and its complexities. Not only does the profession need to foster strong methodologists, but in that endeavor, we need to be attuned to privilege and marginalizations inherent within the institutional system.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Embodying the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competency Movement: Voices From the Field

Nassar-McMillan

Singh

2020

This article illustrates counselors’ embodiment, over time, of the multicultural and social justice counseling competency movement leading to the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (Ratts, Singh, Nassar‐McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015). The authors discuss the multicultural and social justice counseling competency movement in the context of relationships as appropriate to the counseling field. Aligned with contemporary research perspectives, the authors focus on the lived experiences of 2 pioneering social justice and multicultural competency advocates, Drs. Patricia Arredondo and Derald Wing Sue. The authors integrate scholarship with these historical and personal perspectives, as well as their own, to demonstrate the ways in which people and movements drive counseling leadership and advocacy.

“…Finally, a conceptual article by Hays (2020), “Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competency Research: Opportunities for Innovation,” ends the special issue with an important reflection on the impact of multicultural counseling competence research, as well as the emergent social justice counseling research, on the counseling field. In doing so, the author notes future recommendations for implementing the MSJCC in all aspects of research (e.g., Indigenous methodology, participatory action research approaches).…”

Section: Special Issue Articlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to the Special Issue

2020

The authors introduce the special issue of the Journal of Counseling & Development on “Integrating the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies Into Practice, Research, and Advocacy.” They first discuss the rationale and importance of the special issue, as well as the transformative opportunities that the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar‐McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) have to influence counseling and the broader helping professions. Then they provide an overview the special issue articles and their respective contributions. They conclude by explicating the challenges and opportunities in integrating and implementing the MSJCC into counseling practice, research, and advocacy.