{"id":41336,"date":"2015-06-08T02:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41336"},"modified":"2017-02-27T20:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T20:42:25","slug":"competencies-for-counseling-the-multiracial-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41336","title":{"rendered":"Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population"},"content":{"rendered":"

Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Multi-Racial\/Ethnic Counseling Concerns (MRECC) Interest Network of the American Counseling Association Taskforce
\nAmerican Counseling Association<\/a>
\n2015-02-02
\n51 pages<\/p>\n

Co-Chairs\/Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kelley R. Kenney<\/p>\n

Mark E. Kenney<\/p>\n

Taskforce Members\/Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Susan B. Alvarado<\/p>\n

Amanda L. Baden<\/p>\n

Leah Brew<\/p>\n

Stuart Chen-Hayes<\/p>\n

Cheryl L. Crippen,<\/p>\n

Hank L. Harris<\/p>\n

Richard C. Henriksen, Jr.<\/p>\n

Krista M. Malott<\/p>\n

Derrick A. Paladino<\/p>\n

Mark L. Pope<\/p>\n

Carmen F. Salazar<\/p>\n

Anneliese A. Singh<\/p>\n

In memory of Dr. Bea Wehrly for her tireless work and advocacy. The publication of\u00a0<\/em>her book, <\/em>Counseling Interracial Individuals and Families<\/a>, by the American Counseling\u00a0<\/em>Association in 1996 was a major part of this journey.<\/em><\/p>\n

Competencies for Counseling the Multiracial Population: Couples, Families, and Individuals; and Transracial Adoptees and Families <\/strong>(Endorsed and adopted by the ACA Governing Council, March 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Multiracial\/Ethnic Counseling Concerns (MRECC) Interest Network of the\u00a0American Counseling Association has developed the following competencies<\/a> in order to promote\u00a0the development of sound professional counseling practices to competently and effectively\u00a0attend to the diverse needs of the multiple heritage population.<\/p>\n

Section I: Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n

This document is intended to provide counseling competencies for working with and\u00a0advocating for members of the multiracial population including interracial couples, multiracial\u00a0families, and multiracial individuals, and transracial adoptees and families. The document is\u00a0intended for use by counselors and other helping professionals; individuals who educate, train,\u00a0and\/or supervise current and future counseling and other helping professionals; as well as\u00a0individuals who may conduct research and\/or other professional activities with members of the\u00a0multiracial population. To this end, the goal is for these competencies to serve as a resource and\u00a0provide a framework for how counseling and other helping professionals can competently and\u00a0effectively work with and advocate for members of the multiracial population…<\/p>\n

Read the entire report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Multiracial\/Ethnic Counseling Concerns (MRECC) Interest Network of the\u00a0American Counseling Association has developed the following competencies in order to promote\u00a0the development of sound professional counseling practices to competently and effectively\u00a0attend to the diverse needs of the multiple heritage population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[414,125,8,681,4481,23,20],"tags":[20190,20181,1938,1937,20179,20188,20178,20187,20182,20174,1935,4498,20183,20175,3209,1679,20176,20184,20172,1680,3208,20177,20186,20189,1936,20185,20173,20180,20171],"class_list":["post-41336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-reports","category-social-work","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-aca","tag-amanda-baden","tag-amanda-l-baden","tag-american-counseling-association","tag-anneliese-a-singh","tag-anneliese-singh","tag-carmen-f-salazar","tag-carmen-salazar","tag-cheryl-crippen","tag-cheryl-l-crippen","tag-derrick-a-paladino","tag-derrick-paladino","tag-hank-harris","tag-hank-l-harris","tag-kelley-kenney","tag-kelley-r-kenney","tag-krista-m-malott","tag-krista-malott","tag-leah-brew","tag-mark-e-kenney","tag-mark-kenney","tag-mark-l-pope","tag-mark-pope","tag-multi-racialethnic-counseling-concerns-mrecc-interest-network","tag-richard-c-henriksen-jr","tag-richard-henriksen-jr","tag-stuart-chen-hayes","tag-susan-alvarado","tag-susan-b-alvarado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51924,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41336\/revisions\/51924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}