Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the profession and faith integration.
The publication helps students understand how to be and think like an ethically responsible Counselor who is also a Christian and sought an education, which included a Christian worldview.
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice:
- is not focused on training Christian counselors. Rather, it is focused on training future Professional Counselors who want to understand how to be true to their faith without imposing values on clients.
- explains what it means to be a professional counselor, the roles and functions included in being a professional counselor, as well as the historical antecedents, current trends, and future outlook of the profession.
- describes how the counseling role is complementary and distinct from other professionals, what students uniquely bring to the counseling profession, and an understanding of how to integrate their identity as a Christian into the profession.
- is designed to address CACREP standards related to Professional Identity.
- Is divided into four main categories of foundational information about professional identity: Who We Are and What We Do, Spiritual and Ethical Cornerstones, Counseling in Practice, and Looking to the Future.
Introduction to Counseling: Integration of Faith, Professional Identity, and Clinical Practice
Chapter 5: Cultural Diversity and Social Justice
After reading this chapter, you will understand more about:
The meaning of cultural diversity
The definition of social justice and advocacy
The process of advocacy and the need to address institutional and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success for clients
The role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of the profession.
Cultural humility and how to use it in a counseling setting.
The following CACREP standards are addressed in this chapter:
Professional Counseling Orientation and Ethical Practice:
The role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of and with individuals receiving counseling services to address systemic, institutional, architectural, attitudinal, disability, and social barriers that impede access, equity, and success (CACREP 2024, Section 3.A.4.)
The role and process of the professional counselor advocating on behalf of the profession (CACREP 2024, Section 3.A.5.)
Social and Cultural Identities and Experiences:
Theories and models of multicultural counseling, social justice, and advocacy (CACREP 2024, Section 3.B.1.)
The influence of heritage, cultural identities, attitudes, values, beliefs, understandings, within-group differences, and acculturative experiences on individuals’ worldviews (CACREP 2024, Section 3.B.2.)
The influence of heritage, cultural identities, attitudes, values, beliefs, understandings, within-group differences, and acculturative experiences on help-seeking and coping behaviors (CACREP 2024, Section 3.B.3.)
The effects of stereotypes, overt and covert discrimination, racism, power, oppression, privilege, marginalization, microaggressions, and violence on counselors and clients (CACREP 2024, Section 3.B.5.)
Strategies for identifying and eliminating barriers, prejudices, and processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination (CACREP, 2024, Section 3.B.9.)