Using Narrative Approaches to Teach Multicultural Counseling

Abstract

Narrative approaches to teaching multicultural counseling can assist students in integrating course content with a sense of self. Narrative teaching strategies follow a postmodern view of learning-that is, that truth is constructed through the interaction of participants. Justification for narrative approaches to teaching multicultural counseling and narrative are introduced.Los enfoques narrativos para enseiiar la consejeria multicultural pueden ayudar a 10s estudiantes a integrar el contenido del curso con su sentido de ser. Las estrategias de la enseiianza narrativa siguen un pandrama postmoderno de aprendizaje-que considera que la verdad se construye por la interaccidn de participantes. La justificacidn para enfoques narrativos para enseiiar la consejeria multicultural y la narrativa se introducen. s the population of the United States becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, increased attention is being given to counselors' and

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