Social Justice Advocacy Training: An Innovative Certificate Program for Counselor Education

The authors outline an innovative certificate program that promotes the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC; Ratts, Singh, Massar-McMillan, Butler, & McCullough, 2015) and how counselor education programs can commit to a social justice approach. In addition, the authors provide a detailed summary of the certificate program that requires counselors-in-training to move beyond a multicultural understanding of diverse cultural worldviews so that they commit to becoming social change agents and take action on issues of equality and justice. Limitations and implications for counselor educators are presented

Creating A More Inclusive Feminist Identity Development Model

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has highlighted identity differences among feminists. Downing and Roush’s (1984) feminist identity development model was based on privileging White women but today’s young feminists are more focused on oppression of all targeted groups and more inclusive of women of color and men. They rejected Clinton’s feminist identity. We need to develop a new feminist identity model

Teaching Counseling Student to Address the Intersectionality of Oppressions with Clients

Too often in multicultural counseling, counselors focus on a single facet of the client’s identity, such as race or sexuality. The fact is that most clients experience more than one source of oppression. This session will address the issues of preparing counselors-in-training to address multiple oppressions that their clients encounter in their lives that contribute to the difficulties they are experiencing