Ratts, M. J., Singh, A. A., et al. (2016).
Journal of Multicultural Counseling and
Development, 44(1), 28–48.
Abstract
In 2014, the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) appointed a committee to revise the Multicultural Counseling Competencies developed by Sue, Arredondo, and McDavis in 1992 and operationalized by Arredondo et al. in 1996. This article reflects the updated competencies, titled the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015a), which were endorsed by AMCD on June 29, 2015, and by the American Counseling Association on July 20, 2015. A conceptual framework of the MSJCC visually depicts the relationships among the competencies' key constructs: multicultural and social justice praxis, quadrants, domains, and competencies. Implications are discussed.
En 2014, la Asociación para la Consejería y el Desarrollo Multicultural (AMCD, en sus siglas en inglés) formó un comité para revisar las Competencias en Consejería Multicultural desarrolladas por Sue, Arredondo y McDavis en 1992 y operacionalizadas por Arredondo et al. en 1996. Este artículo refleja las competencias actualizadas, denominadas Competencias en Consejería Multicultural y de Justicia Social (MSJCC, en sus siglas en inglés; Ratts, Singh, Nassar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015a), que fueron avaladas por la AMCD el 29 de junio de 2015 y por la Asociación Americana de Consejería el 20 de julio de 2015. Un marco conceptual de las MSJCC muestra visualmente las relaciones entre los constructos principales de las competencias: la praxis multicultural y en justicia social, los cuadrantes, dominios y competencias. Se discuten las implicaciones.
The MSJCC are organized around a conceptual framework that includes quadrants representing the privileged and marginalized statuses of counselors and clients, developmental domains (counselor self-awareness, client worldview, the counseling relationship, and counseling and advocacy interventions), and aspirational competencies sequenced as attitudes and beliefs, knowledge, skills, and action. The addition of action to the original AKS sequence emphasizes the importance of operationalizing competencies through concrete advocacy and intervention efforts. The MSJCC are intended to be developmental and lifelong, guiding counselors, educators, supervisors, and researchers in fostering culturally responsive practice and promoting social justice at individual, community, and systemic levels.
In short, the MSJCC offer a comprehensive, intersectional, and action-oriented framework to help counselors address the complex needs of culturally diverse clients and promote social justice within and beyond the counseling relationship.
