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Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter 2007 ■
Volume 8524
© 2007 by the American Counseling Association.
All rights reserved.
For many decades, counselors and counseling psychologists
have been concerned with the relationship between individu-
als’ mental health and the social milieus in which people live.
As the racial and ethnic diversity of the United States con-
tinues to increase, the need for mental health professionals
to tailor their mental health services to the needs of various
cultural populations has become more germane (Constantine,
Kindaichi, Arorash, Donnelly, & Jung, 2002). In particular,
the growing recognition of the negative consequences of
oppression in the lives of people of color has been crucial
in helping many counselors and counseling psychologists to
identify effective interventions to address such issues and to
work more broadly to effect social change (Hage, 2003; Vera
& Speight, 2003). Such awareness and actions have paralleled
the emergence of the multicultural competence movement
(Arredondo & Perez, 2003; Sue et al., 1982).
Multicultural competence generally is defined as the extent
to which counselors possess appropriate levels of self-aware-
ness, knowledge, and skills in working with individuals from
diverse cultural backgrounds (Arredondo et al., 1996; Sue,
Arredondo, & McDavis, 1992). In particular, self-aware-
ness entails being cognizant of one’s attitudes, beliefs, and
values regarding race, ethnicity, and culture, along with
one’s awareness of the sociopolitical relevance of cultural
group membership in terms of issues of cultural privilege,
discrimination, and oppression. The knowledge dimension
of multicultural competence refers to information one has
about various worldview orientations, histories of oppression
endured by marginalized populations, and culture-specific
values that influence the subjective and collective experi-
ences of marginalized populations. The skills component of
multicultural competence involves the ability to draw from an
existing fund of cultural knowledge to design mental health
interventions that are relevant to marginalized populations.
In many respects, multicultural competence has become
inextricably linked to counselors’ and counseling psycholo-
gists’ ability to commit to and actualize an agenda of social
justice (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001).
Social justice reflects a fundamental valuing of fairness
and equity in resources, rights, and treatment for marginal-
ized individuals and groups of people who do not share equal
power in society because of their immigration, racial, ethnic,
age, socioeconomic, religious heritage, physical ability, or
sexual orientation status groups (Fondacaro & Weinberg,
2002; Prilleltensky & Nelson, 1997). In order to address
social justice issues, some counselors and counseling psy-
chologists in the United States have adopted a professional
commitment to ensuring global or international social change
(Osborne et al., 1998). Others have been involved primar-
ily at a domestic level by being concerned with helping
members of U.S. society to deal with the personal, societal,
and institutional barriers that impede their academic, per-
sonal, social, or career development. Both of these levels
of involvement in social justice issues, however, are critical
in understanding the interdependence of macrosystems and
microsystems in people’s lives, especially in the lives of
marginalized populations.
In this article, we discuss the historical and contemporary
connection to social justice issues in the fields of counsel-
ing and counseling psychology vis-à-vis the multicultural
counseling movement. In addition, we underscore ways that
social justice issues can be incorporated into counselors’ and
counseling psychologists’ work with culturally diverse clients
and into the curricula of academic training programs.
Madonna G. Constantine, Sally M. Hage, and Mai M.
Kindaichi, Department of Counseling and
Clinical Psychology, all at Teach-
ers College, Columbia University; Rhonda M. Bryant,
Department of Counseling, Educational
Leadership and Foundations, Albany
StateUniversity. Correspondence concerning this
article should be addressed to Madonna G.
Constantine, Department of Counsel-
ing and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College,
Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street,
Box 92, New York, NY 10027 (e-mail:
mc81�@columbia.edu).
Social Justice and Multicultural Issues:
Implications for the Practice and
Training of Counselors and
Counseling Psychologists
Madonna G. Constantine, Sally M. Hage, Mai M. Kindaichi, and
Rhonda M. Bryant
The authors discuss the historical and contemporary
connection to social justice issues in
the fields of counseling and
counseling psychology via the multicultural
counseling movement. In addition, the authors
present ways in which social
justice issues can be addressed in counselors’
and counseling psychologists’ work with clients
from diverse cultural
backgrounds and in graduate training programs.
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Social Justice and the Multicultural
Competencies: Their Connections
to the Fields of Counseling and
Counseling Psychology
Within the fields of counseling and counseling psychology,
the holistic, strengths-based philosophy about human nature
and its emphasis on instituting culturally relevant psychoedu-
cational, developmental, social, and vocational interventions
for diverse populations have provided fertile ground for many
social justice initiatives (Vera & Speight, 2003). In fact, many
counselors and counseling psychologists have functioned
as leaders in identifying and implementing guidelines that
address multicultural competence in mental health profes-
sionals (e.g., American Psychological Association [APA],
2003; Arredondo et al., 1996; Sue et al., 1992; Sue et al.,
1982; Sue et al., 1998). The development of such guidelines
or “competencies” has exemplified these fields’ commitment
to social change and remedying social injustices by assisting
various mental health professionals to understand individuals’
circumstances and concerns from a more ecological perspec-
tive (Fondacaro & Weinberg, 2002; Vera & Speight, 2003).
Moreover, the Multicultural Competencies have contributed to
greater awareness of the potentially oppressive roles that these
professionals could unintentionally play through unfounded
assumptions about the universality of cultures and human
experiences (Arredondo & Perez, 2003).
The original presentation of the Multicultural Counseling
Competencies was published in a counseling psychology
journal in the early 1980s (i.e., Sue et al., 1982). Ten years
later, under the leadership of Thomas A. Parham, then-
president of the Association for Counseling and Multicultural
Development, the second iteration of the Multicultural Coun-
seling Competencies was presented (i.e., Sue et al., 1992). In
1996, Arredondo et al. issued a framework that operationalized
the revised version of the Multicultural Counseling Competen-
cies. In 1998, Sue et al. added two competencies related to
organizational multicultural competence. Previous delineations
of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies served as the
backbone of the recent “Guidelines on Multicultural Educa-
tion, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change
for Psychologists” (APA, 2003), which was endorsed by the
APA Council of Representatives in August 2002. Thus, the
broader field of psychology was challenged to adhere to these
aspirational guidelines to promote multicultural competence
in various dimensions of professional practice (e.g., service
delivery, research, and training).
The Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Sue et
al., 1992) were developed as an independent social justice
movement devoted to increasing the relevance of mental
health practice, research, and training to diverse populations
(Arredondo & Perez, 2003). However, most of the existing
literature related to the Multicultural Competencies reflects
attention to issues of social justice at a microlevel (e.g.,
individual counseling and small-group interventions). Such
interventions, however, are generally limited in their ability to
foster broader social change and, consequently, to bring about
true social justice (Helms, 2003). Fairly recent writings (e.g.,
Blustein, Elman, & Gerstein, 2001; Eriksen, 1999; Fox, 2003;
Jackson, 2000; Lee, 1997; Prilleltensky & Prilleltensky, 2003;
Vera & Speight, 2003) have called for increasing numbers of
counselors and counseling psychologists to engage in profes-
sional roles that attend more fully to social and contextual
forces that affect people’s mental health and well-being. As
such, in conducting social justice work, some of these mental
health professionals have adopted roles that have taken them
beyond their offices to settings such as community centers,
churches, school systems, and even legislative bodies for
the purpose of facilitating systemic changes in response to
social injustices (Hage, 2003; Kiselica & Robinson, 2001;
Thompson, Murry, Harris, & Annan, 2003). In addition, coun-
selors and counseling psychologists have been encouraged
to assume preventive mental health roles (e.g., Hage, 2003;
Romano & Hage, 2000) as extensions of social justice and
multicultural agendas.
In our clinical and research work in the areas of multicul-
tural competence and social justice, we have identified nine
specific social justice competencies that we believe are impor-
tant for counselors and counseling psychologists to consider
as they work with increasingly diverse cultural populations in
the United States. These competencies are as follows:
1. Become knowledgeable about the various ways op-
pression and social inequities can be manifested at
the individual, cultural, and societal levels, along
with the ways such inequities might be experienced
by various individuals, groups, organizations, and
macrosystems.
2. Participate in ongoing critical reflection on issues of
race, ethnicity, oppression, power, and privilege in
your own life.
3. Maintain an ongoing awareness of how your own
positions of power or privilege might inadvertently
replicate experiences of injustice and oppression in in-
teracting with stakeholding groups (e.g., clients, com-
munity organizations, and research participants).
4. Question and challenge therapeutic or other interven-
tion practices that appear inappropriate or exploitative
and intervene preemptively, or as early as feasible,
to promote the positive well-being of individuals or
groups who might be affected.
5. Possess knowledge about indigenous models of health
and healing and actively collaborate with such entities,
when appropriate, in order to conceptualize and imple-
ment culturally relevant and holistic interventions.
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6. Cultivate an ongoing awareness of the various types of
social injustices that occur within international contexts;
such injustices frequently have global implications.
7. Conceptualize, implement, and evaluate comprehen-
sive preventive and remedial mental health interven-
tion programs that are aimed at addressing the needs
of marginalized populations.
8. Collaborate with community organizations in
democratic partnerships to promote trust, minimize
perceived power differentials, and provide culturally
relevant services to identified groups.
9. Develop system intervention and advocacy skills to
promote social change processes within institutional
settings, neighborhoods, and communities.
Social Justice Issues and
Counseling Practice
Active involvement in advocacy, community outreach, and
public policy making are prime examples of interventions that
can promote attention to social justice issues among practic-
ing counselors and counseling psychologists (Eriksen, 1999;
Hage, 2003; Vera & Speight, 2003). In the spirit of encour-
aging mental health professionals to broaden their potential
repertoire of helping behaviors beyond those associated with
providing individual counseling or psychotherapy, Atkinson,
Thompson, and Grant (1993) presented a framework that
addressed eight potential helping roles in relation to working
with diverse cultural populations: (a) facilitator of indigenous
healing methods, (b) facilitator of indigenous support systems,
(c) adviser, (d) advocate, (e) change agent, (f) consultant, (g)
counselor, and (h) psychotherapist. Atkinson et al. proposed
that the assumption of any given role(s) depended on the
interaction of three client-based factors: clients’ level of ac-
culturation (i.e., the degree to which clients identify with the
values, beliefs, customs, and institutions of their culture of
origin and the host culture), the locus of the etiology of clients’
presenting problem(s) (i.e., the extent to which clients’ pre-
senting issues stem from internal issues or dynamics or from
external sources), and the goals of intervention or treatment
(i.e., the desired outcomes of helping).
Mental health professionals often adopt the counselor and
psychotherapist roles because they have been taught almost
exclusively to do so in the context of their training programs
(Constantine et al., 2002). However, the assumption of such
roles without full consideration of clients’ level of accultura-
tion, problem etiology, and treatment goals might result in the
delivery of ineffective or culturally irrelevant services. For
example, some low-acculturated individuals might experi-
ence interpersonal difficulties stemming from internal issues
(e.g., low self-esteem), but these individuals may not feel
comfortable or safe in helping relationships with counselors
or counseling psychologists who are not members of their
indigenous frameworks of helping (e.g., family members or
close friends). In such cases, these clients might benefit more
from working with counselors or counseling psychologists
who are able to serve as facilitators of indigenous support
systems or facilitators of indigenous healing methods. In
adopting either of these latter roles, these mental health
professionals should be aware of the potential functions and
importance of indigenous cultural resources, such as family
and friendship networks, religious figures and institutions,
respected community elders or leaders, and “energy healers,”
who could provide assistance that might be more synchronous
with some clients’ worldviews and values.
The roles of adviser, consultant, advocate, and change
agent embody tenets of social justice and activism through
client empowerment and advocacy. In particular, counselors
and counseling psychologists serve as advocates and change
agents when they communicate or interface with structures,
organizations, or institutions that marginalized or disenfran-
chised individuals or groups of people perceive as inherently
oppressive to their well-being. For example, a Black gay
male real estate agent, repeatedly overlooked for promotions
despite an exceptional sales record, might seek counseling or
psychotherapy to address his depressive symptoms arising
from a sense of feeling powerless at work. Although counsel-
ing or psychotherapy might assist this client in achieving his
stated presenting goal, the client also might be helped by a
counselor or counseling psychologist who could assume other
roles such as (a) aiding the client to identify his experiences
regarding racial and/or sexual discrimination and (b) helping
the client to identify potential legal recourses related to his
experiences of discrimination on the job (e.g., serving as an
adviser or consultant). The client also could be encouraged to
join a gay men’s support group or a support group consisting
of men of color in order to obtain support for discussing is-
sues of discrimination based on race or sexual orientation (i.e.,
serving as a facilitator of an indigenous support system). This
example shows that counselors and counseling psychologists
committed to principles of social justice must develop skills in
creativity and courage in order to ameliorate the consequences
of social injustice.
Using the following case example, we illustrate some ways
in which several of Atkinson et al.’s (1993) helping roles
outside of those of counselor and psychotherapist might be
assumed by a counselor or counseling psychologist working
with an international college student.
Case Example
Lydia (a pseudonym) is a 20-year-old, 3rd-year college student
from Lima, Peru, who attends a predominantly White univer-
sity in the midwestern United States. According to the intake
counselor at the university college center, Lydia presented
with issues related to feelings of homesickness. Throughout
her college experience, Lydia stated that she has struggled to
“fit” into the campus community. She also indicated that she
daydreams about her life in Peru, especially her friends and
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family, and that she misses speaking Spanish. Lydia spoke
fluent
English, with a very slight Peruvian accent. At the end of her
intake session, Lydia requested to work with a Latina therapist,
preferably one who spoke Spanish. However, no Latina
counselor
was available for ongoing counseling sessions, so Lydia was as-
signed to work with an Asian American female counselor.
During her initial counseling sessions, Lydia discussed her
erratic sleeping patterns, noting that her sleep cycles had been
short and interrupted over the past 3 weeks. She also stated that
she often had to remind herself to eat and that she had been
feeling lethargic and disinterested in her academic courses.
In addition, she reported that she had begun to withdraw from
her friends in the dorm because, she said, she “doesn’t want
to burden them with my problems.”
Lydia indicated that her symptoms began shortly after the
semester had begun, about 1 month ago. After 2 years of work-
ing part time as a teller with a Latino male supervisor with
whom she was on friendly terms, the supervisor left and was
replaced by a White woman. When Lydia was under review
for a salary increase, a financial discrepancy arose in which
the bank till was short. The female supervisor denied Lydia a
raise, despite a flawless work record, and then accused Lydia of
stealing from the bank. During this same time period, Lydia’s
philosophy professor asked her to respond to a question in
class, to which she hesitated because she felt “self-conscious”
about her accent and ability to articulate her thoughts clearly.
In the middle of Lydia’s response, her professor interrupted
and said, “Hurry up, chica,” to which her classmates laughed.
Lydia felt mortified, and, shortly after these incidents, she
became easily distracted from her studies and cared less about
schoolwork in general. Lydia remarked,
It’s not only that I think I don’t fit in here, but it’s like nobody
really wants me here, and I don’t want to be here either. I work
20 hours a week at the bank with that woman and twice as
long as other students [in completing homework assignments].
Somehow, even though my grades are good, I feel down and
drained. I try to show my teachers that I’m as smart as every-
body else, but they keep asking me if I need a tutor and to speak
quicker. I feel like no one else is going through what I’m going
through. Maybe I should just go back home to Lima.
Discussion of the Case Example
Lydia’s intake counselor initially had conceptualized her
situation as involving feelings of homesickness. However,
as Lydia worked with her assigned counselor, it appeared
that her experiences of cultural discrimination in her work
setting and in her classes had precipitated some depressive
symptoms. Lydia’s counselor explored her feelings about her
employment and educational experiences as related to ethnic
and gender discrimination and considered additional ways she
might be able to help address some of Lydia’s concerns in ways
that extended beyond their direct one-on-one work together.
For example, her counselor assumed the role of adviser by
educating Lydia about how to access civil protections against
discrimination, such as consulting with the campus Affirma-
tive Action Office and the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission. The counselor also undertook a change agent
role on the university campus by offering cultural sensitivity
workshops to faculty members and students, focusing on rais-
ing participants’ awareness of international college students’
cultural adjustment experiences. Such a role could represent
one potential way of indirectly helping Lydia and other inter-
national students to experience less distress related to cultural
insensitivities or racism on campus. Lydia’s counselor also
served as a facilitator of an indigenous support system by
referring Lydia to a Latino(a) student organization so that she
could interact with and obtain support from other Latino(a)s
on campus who might be experiencing similar issues.
Social Justice Issues and
Counseling Training
To prepare future counselors and counseling psychologists
to assume social justice roles, it is vital that the structure,
requirements, and goals of many graduate training programs
are modified to assist students in developing competencies to
intervene at broader levels. Social justice training initiatives,
which often include applied service delivery components
(e.g., Kenny & Gallagher, 2000; Pearlman & Bilodeau, 1999;
Victims’ Service Program, 1992), have offered some graduate
students in counseling and counseling psychology with oppor-
tunities to translate their academic knowledge into real-world
contexts by developing and implementing innovative models
and programs within large community sites and by becoming
involved in social policy work (Pearlman & Bilodeau, 1999).
For example, service-learning training programs can provide
students with a practical understanding of large-scale societal
inequities, along with mechanisms by which they may intervene
to effect change (Kenny & Gallagher, 2000). In addition,
service-learning programs could offer opportunities to gain
valuable research, evaluation, and program development skills
in the context of community mental health settings, which coun-
selor and counseling psychology trainees could then transfer to
other related settings (Kenny & Gallagher, 2000).
Some counselor and counseling psychology training pro-
grams also might consider including educational, legal, and
public policy institutions as experiential or applied learning
sites for the development of critical social justice competen-
cies among their students. For example, Boston College has
partnered with the Boston Public School System’s School-to-
Career program to facilitate academic–community collabora-
tion and to provide trainees with an opportunity to learn from
educational empowerment programs (Hartung & Blustein,
2002). Within this partnership, trainees work with ninth-grade
students by offering career counseling psychoeducational
services focusing on four areas (i.e., identity development, rec-
ognizing resources and barriers to academic and career goals,
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bridging school and work, and building personal strengths).
Academic–legal collaborations also may offer counselor and
counseling psychology trainees with opportunities to witness
litigation issues related to the victimization of specific groups
of people, such as racial discrimination and sexual harassment
cases. Furthermore, collaborations with legal entities or insti-
tutions might provide these trainees with increased fluency in
navigating bureaucratic processes (Fox, 1993, 1999).
Working in social justice training settings that emphasize
less traditional helping roles could challenge some counselor
and counseling psychology trainees to work outside of their
comfort zones. Moreover, trainees who work with some com-
munity action organizations might encounter difficulties in the
initial stages of establishing trust with some of these entities,
particularly if these students and the community’s constituents
are racially, ethnically, and/or socioeconomically different from
each other. Hence, it is vital that counselor and counseling
psychology trainees who engage in social advocacy work with
organizations reflect on their personal ecological histories and
how their values, beliefs, and privileges can either facilitate or
undermine their work efforts (Prilleltensky, 2001). Experience
in community-based social justice settings also could contribute
to these trainees’ abilities to self-reflect about issues of race,
ethnicity, oppression, power, and privilege relative to their own
lives (Mulvey et al., 2000) and to nurture their competence in
working with a broader array of individuals.
Another potential issue related to counselor and counseling
psychology training and social justice initiatives pertains to
the importance of trainees critically examining their ethical
judgment and decision-making styles in relation to clients
from diverse cultural populations. For example, Welfel and
Lipsitz (1983) reported that counselors’ ethical orientation
was positively correlated with moral reasoning, counseling
experience, and number of contributions made to profes-
sional and social action organizations. If attention is given to
understanding how ethical orientation and decision-making
processes of counselor and counseling psychology trainees
might relate to the assumption of social justice initiatives in
a professional context, it might encourage these students to
recognize areas that might need attention with regard to their
competence as service providers.
Lee (1997) asserted that mental health professionals should
become better trained to understand social justice issues from a
more global perspective. This point is based on the notion that
as the interconnectedness of the world becomes increasingly
acknowledged in psychology, social and economic forces will
continue to reshape the composition of societies throughout
the world and narrow the physical and social distance between
groups of people. As such, counselor and counseling psychol-
ogy training programs also should focus on worldwide social
transformation and the need for mental health intervention at
the individual, group, organizational, societal, and interna-
tional levels. Hence, counselor and counseling psychology
trainees should be encouraged and required to understand
how mental health issues may be manifested in populations
residing outside of the United States.
One mechanism that could provide counseling and counseling
psychology students with applied training in this vein would be
the opportunity to conduct a practicum or internship outside of
the United States (Lee, 1997). For example, in a collection of
narratives by feminist community psychologists (Mulvey et al.,
2000), Ingrid Huygens described how her efforts to engage
Maori
women in a lesbian health promotion group forced her to
reevalu-
ate her notions of relationship building, in comparison with
Maori
cultural practices that initiate collaborations. Her efforts also
led
her to realize that the numerical or physical representation of
people from marginalized groups within certain contexts was
not necessarily equivalent to the sharing of procedural power in
such contexts. Thus, opportunities for counselor and counseling
psychology trainees to participate in foreign exchange programs
would expose students to different cultural ecologies and racial
landscapes that could encourage them to reflect more
deliberately
on their status as helpers and as cultural beings (Lee, 1997).
Finally, counselor and counseling psychology training pro-
grams might consider increasing the emphasis given to preven-
tion in their curricula and research initiatives (Conyne, 1997;
Romano & Hage, 2000). In addition to developing practicums
that give greater emphasis to applying and evaluating preven-
tion interventions, a prevention focus could be achieved either
through freestanding courses or through infusion into existing
courses. Romano and Hage suggested eight training domains
relevant to prevention that could be the content of such course
work: community and multidisciplinary collaboration, social
and political history, protective factors and risk-reduction
strategies, systemic intervention, political and social environ-
ment, psychoeducational groups for prevention, prevention
research and evaluation, and prevention ethics. These training
domains could provide students with knowledge and skills to
engage effectively in the practice of prevention.
Conclusion
Counselors and counseling psychologists must continue to
think creatively about how to address social justice issues
in their own work with clients and with students in training
in their fields. As leaders in the multicultural competence
movement, counselors and counseling psychologists are also
in unique and powerful positions to educate their peers about
the importance of mental health professionals achieving
appropriate levels of competence in working with diverse
cultural populations. Counselors and counseling psycholo-
gists are situated in an optimal position to help society’s in-
habitants understand the undue effects of social injustices for
the well-being of the larger society. The increasing cultural
diversity of the United States underscores the importance
and timeliness of these issues, which ultimately could have
profound implications for the well-being of individuals
around the world.
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Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter2007 ■ Volume852.docx

  • 1. Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter 2007 ■ Volume 8524 © 2007 by the American Counseling Association. All rights reserved. For many decades, counselors and counseling psychologists have been concerned with the relationship between individu- als’ mental health and the social milieus in which people live. As the racial and ethnic diversity of the United States con- tinues to increase, the need for mental health professionals to tailor their mental health services to the needs of various cultural populations has become more germane (Constantine, Kindaichi, Arorash, Donnelly, & Jung, 2002). In particular, the growing recognition of the negative consequences of oppression in the lives of people of color has been crucial in helping many counselors and counseling psychologists to identify effective interventions to address such issues and to work more broadly to effect social change (Hage, 2003; Vera & Speight, 2003). Such awareness and actions have paralleled the emergence of the multicultural competence movement (Arredondo & Perez, 2003; Sue et al., 1982). Multicultural competence generally is defined as the extent to which counselors possess appropriate levels of self-aware- ness, knowledge, and skills in working with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds (Arredondo et al., 1996; Sue, Arredondo, & McDavis, 1992). In particular, self-aware- ness entails being cognizant of one’s attitudes, beliefs, and values regarding race, ethnicity, and culture, along with one’s awareness of the sociopolitical relevance of cultural group membership in terms of issues of cultural privilege, discrimination, and oppression. The knowledge dimension
  • 2. of multicultural competence refers to information one has about various worldview orientations, histories of oppression endured by marginalized populations, and culture-specific values that influence the subjective and collective experi- ences of marginalized populations. The skills component of multicultural competence involves the ability to draw from an existing fund of cultural knowledge to design mental health interventions that are relevant to marginalized populations. In many respects, multicultural competence has become inextricably linked to counselors’ and counseling psycholo- gists’ ability to commit to and actualize an agenda of social justice (Kiselica & Robinson, 2001). Social justice reflects a fundamental valuing of fairness and equity in resources, rights, and treatment for marginal- ized individuals and groups of people who do not share equal power in society because of their immigration, racial, ethnic, age, socioeconomic, religious heritage, physical ability, or sexual orientation status groups (Fondacaro & Weinberg, 2002; Prilleltensky & Nelson, 1997). In order to address social justice issues, some counselors and counseling psy- chologists in the United States have adopted a professional commitment to ensuring global or international social change (Osborne et al., 1998). Others have been involved primar- ily at a domestic level by being concerned with helping members of U.S. society to deal with the personal, societal, and institutional barriers that impede their academic, per- sonal, social, or career development. Both of these levels of involvement in social justice issues, however, are critical in understanding the interdependence of macrosystems and microsystems in people’s lives, especially in the lives of marginalized populations. In this article, we discuss the historical and contemporary connection to social justice issues in the fields of counsel-
  • 3. ing and counseling psychology vis-à-vis the multicultural counseling movement. In addition, we underscore ways that social justice issues can be incorporated into counselors’ and counseling psychologists’ work with culturally diverse clients and into the curricula of academic training programs. Madonna G. Constantine, Sally M. Hage, and Mai M. Kindaichi, Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, all at Teach- ers College, Columbia University; Rhonda M. Bryant, Department of Counseling, Educational Leadership and Foundations, Albany StateUniversity. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Madonna G. Constantine, Department of Counsel- ing and Clinical Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street, Box 92, New York, NY 10027 (e-mail: mc81�@columbia.edu). Social Justice and Multicultural Issues: Implications for the Practice and Training of Counselors and Counseling Psychologists Madonna G. Constantine, Sally M. Hage, Mai M. Kindaichi, and Rhonda M. Bryant The authors discuss the historical and contemporary connection to social justice issues in the fields of counseling and counseling psychology via the multicultural counseling movement. In addition, the authors present ways in which social justice issues can be addressed in counselors’ and counseling psychologists’ work with clients from diverse cultural
  • 4. backgrounds and in graduate training programs. Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter 2007 ■ Volume 85 25 Social Justice and Multicultural Issues Social Justice and the Multicultural Competencies: Their Connections to the Fields of Counseling and Counseling Psychology Within the fields of counseling and counseling psychology, the holistic, strengths-based philosophy about human nature and its emphasis on instituting culturally relevant psychoedu- cational, developmental, social, and vocational interventions for diverse populations have provided fertile ground for many social justice initiatives (Vera & Speight, 2003). In fact, many counselors and counseling psychologists have functioned as leaders in identifying and implementing guidelines that address multicultural competence in mental health profes- sionals (e.g., American Psychological Association [APA], 2003; Arredondo et al., 1996; Sue et al., 1992; Sue et al., 1982; Sue et al., 1998). The development of such guidelines or “competencies” has exemplified these fields’ commitment to social change and remedying social injustices by assisting various mental health professionals to understand individuals’ circumstances and concerns from a more ecological perspec- tive (Fondacaro & Weinberg, 2002; Vera & Speight, 2003). Moreover, the Multicultural Competencies have contributed to greater awareness of the potentially oppressive roles that these professionals could unintentionally play through unfounded assumptions about the universality of cultures and human experiences (Arredondo & Perez, 2003).
  • 5. The original presentation of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies was published in a counseling psychology journal in the early 1980s (i.e., Sue et al., 1982). Ten years later, under the leadership of Thomas A. Parham, then- president of the Association for Counseling and Multicultural Development, the second iteration of the Multicultural Coun- seling Competencies was presented (i.e., Sue et al., 1992). In 1996, Arredondo et al. issued a framework that operationalized the revised version of the Multicultural Counseling Competen- cies. In 1998, Sue et al. added two competencies related to organizational multicultural competence. Previous delineations of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies served as the backbone of the recent “Guidelines on Multicultural Educa- tion, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists” (APA, 2003), which was endorsed by the APA Council of Representatives in August 2002. Thus, the broader field of psychology was challenged to adhere to these aspirational guidelines to promote multicultural competence in various dimensions of professional practice (e.g., service delivery, research, and training). The Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Sue et al., 1992) were developed as an independent social justice movement devoted to increasing the relevance of mental health practice, research, and training to diverse populations (Arredondo & Perez, 2003). However, most of the existing literature related to the Multicultural Competencies reflects attention to issues of social justice at a microlevel (e.g., individual counseling and small-group interventions). Such interventions, however, are generally limited in their ability to foster broader social change and, consequently, to bring about true social justice (Helms, 2003). Fairly recent writings (e.g., Blustein, Elman, & Gerstein, 2001; Eriksen, 1999; Fox, 2003; Jackson, 2000; Lee, 1997; Prilleltensky & Prilleltensky, 2003;
  • 6. Vera & Speight, 2003) have called for increasing numbers of counselors and counseling psychologists to engage in profes- sional roles that attend more fully to social and contextual forces that affect people’s mental health and well-being. As such, in conducting social justice work, some of these mental health professionals have adopted roles that have taken them beyond their offices to settings such as community centers, churches, school systems, and even legislative bodies for the purpose of facilitating systemic changes in response to social injustices (Hage, 2003; Kiselica & Robinson, 2001; Thompson, Murry, Harris, & Annan, 2003). In addition, coun- selors and counseling psychologists have been encouraged to assume preventive mental health roles (e.g., Hage, 2003; Romano & Hage, 2000) as extensions of social justice and multicultural agendas. In our clinical and research work in the areas of multicul- tural competence and social justice, we have identified nine specific social justice competencies that we believe are impor- tant for counselors and counseling psychologists to consider as they work with increasingly diverse cultural populations in the United States. These competencies are as follows: 1. Become knowledgeable about the various ways op- pression and social inequities can be manifested at the individual, cultural, and societal levels, along with the ways such inequities might be experienced by various individuals, groups, organizations, and macrosystems. 2. Participate in ongoing critical reflection on issues of race, ethnicity, oppression, power, and privilege in your own life. 3. Maintain an ongoing awareness of how your own positions of power or privilege might inadvertently
  • 7. replicate experiences of injustice and oppression in in- teracting with stakeholding groups (e.g., clients, com- munity organizations, and research participants). 4. Question and challenge therapeutic or other interven- tion practices that appear inappropriate or exploitative and intervene preemptively, or as early as feasible, to promote the positive well-being of individuals or groups who might be affected. 5. Possess knowledge about indigenous models of health and healing and actively collaborate with such entities, when appropriate, in order to conceptualize and imple- ment culturally relevant and holistic interventions. Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter 2007 ■ Volume 852� Constantine, Hage, Kindaichi, & Bryant 6. Cultivate an ongoing awareness of the various types of social injustices that occur within international contexts; such injustices frequently have global implications. 7. Conceptualize, implement, and evaluate comprehen- sive preventive and remedial mental health interven- tion programs that are aimed at addressing the needs of marginalized populations. 8. Collaborate with community organizations in democratic partnerships to promote trust, minimize perceived power differentials, and provide culturally relevant services to identified groups.
  • 8. 9. Develop system intervention and advocacy skills to promote social change processes within institutional settings, neighborhoods, and communities. Social Justice Issues and Counseling Practice Active involvement in advocacy, community outreach, and public policy making are prime examples of interventions that can promote attention to social justice issues among practic- ing counselors and counseling psychologists (Eriksen, 1999; Hage, 2003; Vera & Speight, 2003). In the spirit of encour- aging mental health professionals to broaden their potential repertoire of helping behaviors beyond those associated with providing individual counseling or psychotherapy, Atkinson, Thompson, and Grant (1993) presented a framework that addressed eight potential helping roles in relation to working with diverse cultural populations: (a) facilitator of indigenous healing methods, (b) facilitator of indigenous support systems, (c) adviser, (d) advocate, (e) change agent, (f) consultant, (g) counselor, and (h) psychotherapist. Atkinson et al. proposed that the assumption of any given role(s) depended on the interaction of three client-based factors: clients’ level of ac- culturation (i.e., the degree to which clients identify with the values, beliefs, customs, and institutions of their culture of origin and the host culture), the locus of the etiology of clients’ presenting problem(s) (i.e., the extent to which clients’ pre- senting issues stem from internal issues or dynamics or from external sources), and the goals of intervention or treatment (i.e., the desired outcomes of helping). Mental health professionals often adopt the counselor and psychotherapist roles because they have been taught almost exclusively to do so in the context of their training programs (Constantine et al., 2002). However, the assumption of such roles without full consideration of clients’ level of accultura-
  • 9. tion, problem etiology, and treatment goals might result in the delivery of ineffective or culturally irrelevant services. For example, some low-acculturated individuals might experi- ence interpersonal difficulties stemming from internal issues (e.g., low self-esteem), but these individuals may not feel comfortable or safe in helping relationships with counselors or counseling psychologists who are not members of their indigenous frameworks of helping (e.g., family members or close friends). In such cases, these clients might benefit more from working with counselors or counseling psychologists who are able to serve as facilitators of indigenous support systems or facilitators of indigenous healing methods. In adopting either of these latter roles, these mental health professionals should be aware of the potential functions and importance of indigenous cultural resources, such as family and friendship networks, religious figures and institutions, respected community elders or leaders, and “energy healers,” who could provide assistance that might be more synchronous with some clients’ worldviews and values. The roles of adviser, consultant, advocate, and change agent embody tenets of social justice and activism through client empowerment and advocacy. In particular, counselors and counseling psychologists serve as advocates and change agents when they communicate or interface with structures, organizations, or institutions that marginalized or disenfran- chised individuals or groups of people perceive as inherently oppressive to their well-being. For example, a Black gay male real estate agent, repeatedly overlooked for promotions despite an exceptional sales record, might seek counseling or psychotherapy to address his depressive symptoms arising from a sense of feeling powerless at work. Although counsel- ing or psychotherapy might assist this client in achieving his stated presenting goal, the client also might be helped by a counselor or counseling psychologist who could assume other
  • 10. roles such as (a) aiding the client to identify his experiences regarding racial and/or sexual discrimination and (b) helping the client to identify potential legal recourses related to his experiences of discrimination on the job (e.g., serving as an adviser or consultant). The client also could be encouraged to join a gay men’s support group or a support group consisting of men of color in order to obtain support for discussing is- sues of discrimination based on race or sexual orientation (i.e., serving as a facilitator of an indigenous support system). This example shows that counselors and counseling psychologists committed to principles of social justice must develop skills in creativity and courage in order to ameliorate the consequences of social injustice. Using the following case example, we illustrate some ways in which several of Atkinson et al.’s (1993) helping roles outside of those of counselor and psychotherapist might be assumed by a counselor or counseling psychologist working with an international college student. Case Example Lydia (a pseudonym) is a 20-year-old, 3rd-year college student from Lima, Peru, who attends a predominantly White univer- sity in the midwestern United States. According to the intake counselor at the university college center, Lydia presented with issues related to feelings of homesickness. Throughout her college experience, Lydia stated that she has struggled to “fit” into the campus community. She also indicated that she daydreams about her life in Peru, especially her friends and Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter 2007 ■ Volume 85 27
  • 11. Social Justice and Multicultural Issues family, and that she misses speaking Spanish. Lydia spoke fluent English, with a very slight Peruvian accent. At the end of her intake session, Lydia requested to work with a Latina therapist, preferably one who spoke Spanish. However, no Latina counselor was available for ongoing counseling sessions, so Lydia was as- signed to work with an Asian American female counselor. During her initial counseling sessions, Lydia discussed her erratic sleeping patterns, noting that her sleep cycles had been short and interrupted over the past 3 weeks. She also stated that she often had to remind herself to eat and that she had been feeling lethargic and disinterested in her academic courses. In addition, she reported that she had begun to withdraw from her friends in the dorm because, she said, she “doesn’t want to burden them with my problems.” Lydia indicated that her symptoms began shortly after the semester had begun, about 1 month ago. After 2 years of work- ing part time as a teller with a Latino male supervisor with whom she was on friendly terms, the supervisor left and was replaced by a White woman. When Lydia was under review for a salary increase, a financial discrepancy arose in which the bank till was short. The female supervisor denied Lydia a raise, despite a flawless work record, and then accused Lydia of stealing from the bank. During this same time period, Lydia’s philosophy professor asked her to respond to a question in class, to which she hesitated because she felt “self-conscious” about her accent and ability to articulate her thoughts clearly. In the middle of Lydia’s response, her professor interrupted and said, “Hurry up, chica,” to which her classmates laughed. Lydia felt mortified, and, shortly after these incidents, she became easily distracted from her studies and cared less about
  • 12. schoolwork in general. Lydia remarked, It’s not only that I think I don’t fit in here, but it’s like nobody really wants me here, and I don’t want to be here either. I work 20 hours a week at the bank with that woman and twice as long as other students [in completing homework assignments]. Somehow, even though my grades are good, I feel down and drained. I try to show my teachers that I’m as smart as every- body else, but they keep asking me if I need a tutor and to speak quicker. I feel like no one else is going through what I’m going through. Maybe I should just go back home to Lima. Discussion of the Case Example Lydia’s intake counselor initially had conceptualized her situation as involving feelings of homesickness. However, as Lydia worked with her assigned counselor, it appeared that her experiences of cultural discrimination in her work setting and in her classes had precipitated some depressive symptoms. Lydia’s counselor explored her feelings about her employment and educational experiences as related to ethnic and gender discrimination and considered additional ways she might be able to help address some of Lydia’s concerns in ways that extended beyond their direct one-on-one work together. For example, her counselor assumed the role of adviser by educating Lydia about how to access civil protections against discrimination, such as consulting with the campus Affirma- tive Action Office and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The counselor also undertook a change agent role on the university campus by offering cultural sensitivity workshops to faculty members and students, focusing on rais- ing participants’ awareness of international college students’ cultural adjustment experiences. Such a role could represent one potential way of indirectly helping Lydia and other inter- national students to experience less distress related to cultural
  • 13. insensitivities or racism on campus. Lydia’s counselor also served as a facilitator of an indigenous support system by referring Lydia to a Latino(a) student organization so that she could interact with and obtain support from other Latino(a)s on campus who might be experiencing similar issues. Social Justice Issues and Counseling Training To prepare future counselors and counseling psychologists to assume social justice roles, it is vital that the structure, requirements, and goals of many graduate training programs are modified to assist students in developing competencies to intervene at broader levels. Social justice training initiatives, which often include applied service delivery components (e.g., Kenny & Gallagher, 2000; Pearlman & Bilodeau, 1999; Victims’ Service Program, 1992), have offered some graduate students in counseling and counseling psychology with oppor- tunities to translate their academic knowledge into real-world contexts by developing and implementing innovative models and programs within large community sites and by becoming involved in social policy work (Pearlman & Bilodeau, 1999). For example, service-learning training programs can provide students with a practical understanding of large-scale societal inequities, along with mechanisms by which they may intervene to effect change (Kenny & Gallagher, 2000). In addition, service-learning programs could offer opportunities to gain valuable research, evaluation, and program development skills in the context of community mental health settings, which coun- selor and counseling psychology trainees could then transfer to other related settings (Kenny & Gallagher, 2000). Some counselor and counseling psychology training pro- grams also might consider including educational, legal, and public policy institutions as experiential or applied learning sites for the development of critical social justice competen-
  • 14. cies among their students. For example, Boston College has partnered with the Boston Public School System’s School-to- Career program to facilitate academic–community collabora- tion and to provide trainees with an opportunity to learn from educational empowerment programs (Hartung & Blustein, 2002). Within this partnership, trainees work with ninth-grade students by offering career counseling psychoeducational services focusing on four areas (i.e., identity development, rec- ognizing resources and barriers to academic and career goals, Journal of Counseling & Development ■ Winter 2007 ■ Volume 8528 Constantine, Hage, Kindaichi, & Bryant bridging school and work, and building personal strengths). Academic–legal collaborations also may offer counselor and counseling psychology trainees with opportunities to witness litigation issues related to the victimization of specific groups of people, such as racial discrimination and sexual harassment cases. Furthermore, collaborations with legal entities or insti- tutions might provide these trainees with increased fluency in navigating bureaucratic processes (Fox, 1993, 1999). Working in social justice training settings that emphasize less traditional helping roles could challenge some counselor and counseling psychology trainees to work outside of their comfort zones. Moreover, trainees who work with some com- munity action organizations might encounter difficulties in the initial stages of establishing trust with some of these entities, particularly if these students and the community’s constituents are racially, ethnically, and/or socioeconomically different from each other. Hence, it is vital that counselor and counseling psychology trainees who engage in social advocacy work with
  • 15. organizations reflect on their personal ecological histories and how their values, beliefs, and privileges can either facilitate or undermine their work efforts (Prilleltensky, 2001). Experience in community-based social justice settings also could contribute to these trainees’ abilities to self-reflect about issues of race, ethnicity, oppression, power, and privilege relative to their own lives (Mulvey et al., 2000) and to nurture their competence in working with a broader array of individuals. Another potential issue related to counselor and counseling psychology training and social justice initiatives pertains to the importance of trainees critically examining their ethical judgment and decision-making styles in relation to clients from diverse cultural populations. For example, Welfel and Lipsitz (1983) reported that counselors’ ethical orientation was positively correlated with moral reasoning, counseling experience, and number of contributions made to profes- sional and social action organizations. If attention is given to understanding how ethical orientation and decision-making processes of counselor and counseling psychology trainees might relate to the assumption of social justice initiatives in a professional context, it might encourage these students to recognize areas that might need attention with regard to their competence as service providers. Lee (1997) asserted that mental health professionals should become better trained to understand social justice issues from a more global perspective. This point is based on the notion that as the interconnectedness of the world becomes increasingly acknowledged in psychology, social and economic forces will continue to reshape the composition of societies throughout the world and narrow the physical and social distance between groups of people. As such, counselor and counseling psychol- ogy training programs also should focus on worldwide social transformation and the need for mental health intervention at the individual, group, organizational, societal, and interna-
  • 16. tional levels. Hence, counselor and counseling psychology trainees should be encouraged and required to understand how mental health issues may be manifested in populations residing outside of the United States. One mechanism that could provide counseling and counseling psychology students with applied training in this vein would be the opportunity to conduct a practicum or internship outside of the United States (Lee, 1997). For example, in a collection of narratives by feminist community psychologists (Mulvey et al., 2000), Ingrid Huygens described how her efforts to engage Maori women in a lesbian health promotion group forced her to reevalu- ate her notions of relationship building, in comparison with Maori cultural practices that initiate collaborations. Her efforts also led her to realize that the numerical or physical representation of people from marginalized groups within certain contexts was not necessarily equivalent to the sharing of procedural power in such contexts. Thus, opportunities for counselor and counseling psychology trainees to participate in foreign exchange programs would expose students to different cultural ecologies and racial landscapes that could encourage them to reflect more deliberately on their status as helpers and as cultural beings (Lee, 1997). Finally, counselor and counseling psychology training pro- grams might consider increasing the emphasis given to preven- tion in their curricula and research initiatives (Conyne, 1997; Romano & Hage, 2000). In addition to developing practicums that give greater emphasis to applying and evaluating preven- tion interventions, a prevention focus could be achieved either through freestanding courses or through infusion into existing
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