Comprehensive Multicultural Curriculum: Self-Awareness as Process

Evaluation of a multicultural competence curriculum in a psychology-based counseling program.

“…In other words, students in our program may be building on the awareness work they begin in the previous semester when it is followed by simultaneous awareness and skills courses. This adds to the empirical research on the effectiveness of MC training (Benuto et al, 2018) and emphasizes one component of our model (Bartoli et al, 2014;Michael & Bartoli, 2017) for other training programs to consider. Further, as constraints of funding and time impact infusion, the particular effectiveness of these combined elements may be a meaningful starting place for training programs to consider.…”

“…The second counseling skills class ( Advanced Counseling ) usually takes place in the middle of one’s training, and the MC Knowledge Labs occur during students’ final year in the program. Michael and Bartoli (2017) provided a detailed description of the activities involved in the curriculum.…”