Predictors of Broaching: Multicultural Competence, Racial Color Blindness, and Interpersonal Communication

King, Kelly M.; Summers, LaTonya M.

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“…In the recent development of MSJCC, the AKS was expanded to include actions (A) completing AKSA since "taking action by operationalizing attitudes and beliefs, knowledge, and skills (AKS) is critical to achieving multicultural and social justice outcomes" (Ratts et al, 2016, p. 38). This also reflects the observation of pedagogical scholars in both clinical practice and social justice studies that being aware of the importance of clinical engagement, having critical reflexivity on systemic oppressions and having knowledge and skills on clinical practice, cultural sensitivities, and/or systemic oppressions do not directly improve the "doing" of clinically, critically, and culturally competent practice (King & Summers, 2020;Lee et al, 2021;Sheppard et al, 2000).…”

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“…Broaching has been understood as “a whole stance or ways of approaching injustice in the world” (King, 2021, p. 88) and “ a process by which counselors can bring cultural characteristics of the client and the counselor into the room and invite clients to explore the relevance of those characteristics” (Jones & Welfare, 2017, p. 49). It is also “a flexible, contextual intervention ” (King & Summers, 2020, p. 218) and “a multifaceted skill that can be used at multiple points” in therapy (King, 2021, p. 88). We previously theorized broaching as both case formulation and intervention, both therapy skills and a therapy stance, and both a therapy process and indicator of competent professional practice and cultural competence/humility (Lee et al, in press).…”

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Microskills of broaching and bridging in cross-cultural psychotherapy: Locating therapy skills in the epistemic domain toward fostering epistemic justice.

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Psychotherapy research has shown evidence of positive impacts of broaching cultural differences on the therapy process and outcomes. This increasing body of research also highlights a need to clarify clinical skills of broaching and subsequent bridging to guide therapists in crosscultural psychotherapy. In articulating microskills to promote broaching and bridging, we critically reflect on cautions against slipping into a technocratic approach that is a mechanical prescriptive skill-based guideline. Using critical theory on epistemic injustice, we examine how to integrate cultural aspects into therapy conversations that are aligned with epistemic and social justice. Drawing from sociolinguistic and critical scholars on language and power, we interrogate epistemic domains of knowledge and power during broaching and bridging in everyday clinical talks. We focus on theorizing and illustrating "how-to-do" broaching and bridging to guide therapists in everyday cross-cultural encounters with selected microskills such as a therapist's self-disclosure, cultural immediacy, and reflective listening. Using case illustrations with detailed transcripts for each skill, we interrogate how a client's epistemic status can be managed in the moment-to-moment conversation between a client and therapist in the continuum from dismissing to deepening the client's experience. A series of detailed case illustrations are intended to guide therapists' self-reflection and/or train therapists toward meaningful cross-cultural work. Lastly, we discuss the implications of broaching and bridging while situating this work as promoting epistemic justice in cross-cultural therapy encounters. Public Policy Relevance StatementIn working with individuals who come from different cultural experiences from their therapists, it is critical for therapists to acknowledge the presence of cultural similarities and differences and the workings of power within the therapy dyads. This means understanding how systemic oppression influences a client's experience; explicitly broaching and bridging any differences and potential misunderstanding; and including the impacts of systemic oppression as part of the therapeutic conversations, which may contribute to building the therapeutic alliance with the client. This broaching and bridging process, however, is more complicated than it appears because of the tacit nature of culture and power that is in motion during cross-cultural encounters. Paying attention to territories of knowledge and power (i.e., epistemic domains) in everyday therapeutic interactions, this article details microskills in broaching and bridging such as a therapist's self-disclosure, cultural immediacy, and reflective listening to guide therapists in health and social services toward achieving epistemic and social justice. aaa This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers.This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly

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Microskills of broaching and bridging in cross-cultural psychotherapy: Locating therapy skills in the epistemic domain toward fostering epistemic justice.

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Hu³

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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“…The analyses presented in this study establish a baseline of sorts, providing some insight into what might be most natural, comfortable, or perceived as most relevant by practitioners in the field. As the visibility of broaching skills increases via new examples for its application (e.g., Day‐Vines et al., 2020; King, 2021; King & Summers, 2020), monitoring how broaching translates into session behaviors that are observable by others is essential (King et al., 2020).…”

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“…Relatedly, identities vary in terms of their salience address and visibility, meaning that counselors may particular aspects of the client's whole self at different moments in the counseling process. Example broaching statements (see Cardemil & Battle, 2003; Day‐Vines et al., 2020; Jones & Welfare, 2017; King & Borders, 2019; King & Summers, 2020) vary in their approach and the degree to which they rely on client disclosure about culture. Some approaches are more proactive, with the counselor employing empathy and critical consciousness of social inequities to probe the relevance of culture, whereas other approaches are more responsive to client material (King, 2021).…”

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Client perspectives on broaching intersectionality in counseling

King

2021

J Humanistic Counseling

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“…Already, there is evidence that broaching race and racism benefits the working alliance, client self‐disclosure, counselor credibility, client satisfaction with services and attendance, and counselor cross‐cultural counseling competence and multicultural orientation (Fuertes et al, 2002; King & Borders, 2019; Knox et al, 2003; Zhang & McCoy, 2009). Despite this promise, counselors hesitate to broach with clients (Jones & Welfare, 2017), expressing various levels of willingness, depending on the counselor's own positionality and beliefs about the relevance of culture and power (e.g., individuals who endorse race neutrality are, on average, less multiculturally competent and harbor more biases; Day‐Vines et al, 2018; King & Summers, 2020). As a further complication, scholars have made multiple, and at times contradictory, recommendations for how and when to apply this skill in session, creating confusion between the imperative to take clear, deliberate action and the need to be delicate about the nuances of a particular client's life situation.…”

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“I Want to, But How?” Defining Counselor Broaching in Core Tenets and Debated Components

King

2021

J Multicult Couns & Deve

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Although counselor broaching of cultural identities and structural issues with clients is broadly supported by the counseling profession, how to do so most effectively has been debated. In this article, I identify core tenets, or commonalities, across the broaching literature and critically examine the debates about specific components of broaching practice. I define the term broaching and invite empirical tests of broaching components to begin a process of translating culturally responsive theory into an observable, evidence‐based skill set. A pesar de que en la práctica profesional de la consejería se aprueba mayoritariamente el abordamiento de las identidades culturales y problemas estructurales con los clientes, aún se debate cómo hacerlo de la forma más efectiva. En este artículo, identifico principios fundamentales, o rasgos comunes, en la literatura sobre el abordamiento y examino críticamente los debates sobre componentes específicos de la práctica del abordamiento. Defino el término abordamiento y solicito pruebas empíricas de los componentes del abordamiento para iniciar el proceso de convertir una teoría culturalmente sensible en un conjunto de habilidades observables y basadas en pruebas.

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Predictors of Broaching: Multicultural Competence, Racial Color Blindness, and Interpersonal Communication

Cited by 12 publications

References 41 publications

Microskills of broaching and bridging in cross-cultural psychotherapy: Locating therapy skills in the epistemic domain toward fostering epistemic justice.

Microskills of broaching and bridging in cross-cultural psychotherapy: Locating therapy skills in the epistemic domain toward fostering epistemic justice.

Client perspectives on broaching intersectionality in counseling

“I Want to, But How?” Defining Counselor Broaching in Core Tenets and Debated Components

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