Building Multicultural Competency

Development, Training, and Practice

Contributions by Evelinn A. Borrayo, Anne Chan, Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Kevin Cokley, Patricia A. Fleming, Lisa Y. Flores, G H. Grandbois, Paul P. Heppner, Erika L. Kirby, Shamin Ladhani, Jeanne E. Manese, Camille Motley, Helen A. Neville, Thomas A. Parham, William D. Parham, Samuel S. Park, Carlton W. Parks Jr, Nima Patel, John Pierce, John E. Queener, Shannon D. Smith, Mary Ann Takemoto, Ashton W. Welch Edited by Joseph L. White, Sheila J. Henderson

Publication date:

25 July 2008

Length of book:

226 pages

Publisher

Jason Aronson, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780742564206

Currently, the mental health workforce is neither trained nor staffed in a way that appropriately addresses the essential needs of the growing multicultural population. This must change. The 21st century requires an innovative paradigm in multicultural psychology in order to improve the standard for mental health professionals.

Building Multicultural Competency answers this need by providing a new Multiracial/Multiethnic/Multicultural Competency Building Model—a model that, in great detail, provides relevant solutions to this growing problem. This book will supply individuals, students, professionals, educators, and administrators who are involved in the field of psychology with a map on how to build the multicultural competency skills that will allow them to function cross-culturally. The resolutions are personally enriching, helpful to diverse peoples, and influential to other individuals, groups, and institutions.

Chapter 1 Foreword: Student Quest for Multicultural Competence
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part I. Multiracial / Multiethnic / Multicultural Competency Building Model
Chapter 4 Chapter 1. Cultural Trauma: A Critical Backdrop to Building Multicultural Competency
Chapter 5 Chapter 2. "The Browning of America:" Building a New Multiracial, Multiethnic, Multicultural Paradigm
Part 6 Part II. Promising Practices among Graduate Training Programs
Chapter 7 Chapter 3. Creighton University: Beyond the Conceptual - Diversity Education for Faculty
Chapter 8 Chapter 4. Counseling Psychology at University of Missouri-Columbia: The Development of an Integrative Multicultural Training Model
Chapter 9 Chapter 5. Alliant International University, Los Angeles: An Anti-Domination Paradigm Shift in the Training of Community-Clinical Psychologists
Chapter 10 Chapter 6. University of California, San Diego Student Counseling Center: Training for Multicultural Competence-A Different Way of Knowing
Chapter 11 Chapter 7. University of California, Irvine Student Counseling Center: Lessons Learned Through the Commitment to Multiculturalism
Part 12 Part III. Training and Mentoring New Generations of Scholars
Chapter 13 Chapter 8. Training the Next Generation of Ethnic Minority Multicultural Researchers
Chapter 14 Chapter 9. Multicultural Mentoring
Chapter 15 Chapter 10. Managing Resistance: The Difference Between Success and Failure of Multicultural Competency Initiatives
Chapter 16 Chapter 11. Challenging Dialogues: Working Through Resistance Toward Multicultural Understanding
Part 17 Part IV. Forward Movement in hte Psychology Field
Chapter 18 Chapter 12. The Evolution of the Multicultural Summit
Chapter 19 Conclusion
Chapter 20 Afterword: Student Perspective a Growing Edge

This book is a must-read for students and professionals. Some of the most influential scholars and educators in the field talk honestly about ways to train multiculturally competent psychologists at all levels. The contributors talk about the challenges, but more critically, discuss concrete ways to train psychologistst as practitioners and scholars. Joe White and Sheila Henderson have indeed, provided a book of promising practices in multicultural training. But the real paradigm shift is that, as a whole collection, the editors of this book are creating institutional change.