Train-the-Trainer Training: Fostering Master Trainers for Multicultural Counseling Competencies
Multicultural Counseling Competencies Guide available from AMCD!
Train-the-Trainer Training: Fostering Master Trainers for Multicultural Counseling Competencies
A cadre of Master Trainers in Multicultural Counseling Competence is being fostered through a Train-the Trainer Model. The goal of this project is to provide eight-hour awareness-level workshops introducing the Multicultural Counseling Competencies as adapted by AMCD, ACES, APA Division 17, and others!
The first Train-the-Trainer Workshop was held in Orlando at the 1997 Convention. Participants taking the Train-the-Trainer program are committed to working as trainers for four AMCD mutlicultural competencies awareness workshops. These will be introductory workshops all over the country - introducing as many helping professionals as possible to the multicultural competencies, and awakening their appetite for more advanced workshops, literature etc. These workshops will be set up through national, regional, and state AMCD and other ACA affiliated associations.
Become a Master Trainer! Get involved with at least the first "wave" of workshops over this first year. If you are interested in becoming a trainer, or arranging for a Multicultural Counseling Competencies Workshop to be held, please contact Janet I. Jones, P.O. Box 1852, Eglin AFB, Florida 32542-1852.
Competencies Guide available from AMCD!
Operationalization of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies, by Patricia Arredondo, Ed.D.; Rebecca Toporek, M.S.; Sherlon Brown, Ph.D.; Janet Jones, M.Ed.; Don C. Locke, Ph.D.; Joe Sanchez, Ph.D.; and Holly Stadler, Ph.D. (1996)
A benchmark for the counseling profession and the American Counseling Association, these competencies are a manifestation of the universality of multiculturalism as a construct that reflects and affects our personal and professional lives. For the first time in the history of the profession, multicultural competencies are articulated to guide interpersonal counseling in the context of culture, ethnicity, and race. The richness of this document lies with the applicability of the competencies to different counseling environments and through various specializations, e.g. group work, career development, and counselor education.
To order this monograph, please send your name, address, telephone number, email address and a check ($25/monograph; $20 for graduate students who submit proof of graduate status) to:
Janet Jones, Chair, AMCD Professional Standards and Certification Committee, P.O. Box 1852, Eglin AFB, FL 32542
FREE books for course instructors: For a class of 12 or more, send check or money order for full amount and receive one book free. Allow three weeks for delivery.
1998 World Conference American Counseling Association
Empowerment through social action is the theme for the 1998 Indianapolis World Conference. Program proposals that present from a multicultural perspective are needed! Submission deadline is May 30, 1997.