Developing Multicultural Competence

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Developing Multicultural Competence
CEW Cream series title slide

• Providing culturally relevant career counseling
  practice and services

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Outline of the Day

• Introductions
• How do issues of diversity impact your work?
• Explore phases of multicultural career counseling
  as a tool for discussion

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Using Career Counseling Phases

• Initiation
• Self-Understanding
• Making Meaning
• Generating Alternatives
• Obtaining Occ Information
• Making Choices
• Making Plans
• Implementing Plans

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I Initiation

• Establishing a relationship
• Privilege discussion
• What makes it critical and challenging?
• Meeting and greeting
• How are communicating with your target audience?

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• Establishing rapport
• What are the indications that you are offering
  credible services?
• Creating structure
• How are you helping your target audience
  understand the nature of your services?

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• Assessment
• What kinds of assessment should be consider when
  conducting culturally responsive career
  counseling?

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II Self-Understanding

• Cultural Issues
• How do you know whether the assessments you use
  are appropriate?
• How can you engage in traditional assessments in
  ways that manage potential bias?

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• Socio/political issues
• How does the historical experience of the
  individuals group affiliation impact your
  ability to facilitate self-understanding?
• Clients attitudes/biases about work
• How do attitudes/biases impact self-understanding?

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III Making Meaning from Self-Understanding Data

• How does maintaining a social justice perspective
  impact case conceputalization?
• Exercise Using Career Narrative

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IV Generating Alternatives

• How can we help facilitate the development of
  goal-setting skills?

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V Obtaining Occupational Information

• How can online systems support the occupational
  search process?

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VI Making Choices

• How do we facilitate choice making?

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VII Making Plans

• How do we help individuals establish short-term
  and immediate behavioral intentions?

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VIII Implementing Plans

• How do we link individuals to resources within
  the community?

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CEW Cream series last slide

• V. Scott Solberg, Ph. D., is Associate Director
  of Research and Director of Wisconsin Careers
• Kimberly A. S. Howard, Ph. D. is Assistant
  Profession in the Department of Counseling
  Psychology
• www.cew.wisc.edu
• ssolberg_at_education.wisc.edu
• khoward_at_education.wisc.edu