The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Multicultural Competence, Social Justice, and Counseling Psychology: Expanding Our Roles
Abstract
The construct of multicultural competence has gained much currency in the counseling psychology literature. This article provides a critique of the multicultural counseling competencies and argues that counseling psychology's operationalization of multicultural competence must be grounded in a commitment to social justice. Such a commitment necessitates an expansion of our professional activities beyond counseling and psychotherapy. While counseling is one way to provide services to clients from oppressed groups, it is limited in its ability to foster social change. Engaging in advocacy, prevention, and outreach is critical to social justice efforts, as is grounding teaching and research in collaborative and social action processes.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
No references could be resolved yet.
Research works printed but not linked: 39
- 10.1037/0003-066X.55.2.247 · DOI
- 10.1177/0011000000286006 · DOI
- 10.1177/0959353599009003003 · DOI
- 10.1177/0011000098264003 · doi:10.1177/0011000098264003
- 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02427.x · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1002/j.2161-1912.1996.tb00288.x · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1177/0011000093212010 · DOI · Paper page
- Bell, L. A. (1997). Theoretical foundations for social justice education. In M. Adams, L. A. Bell, & P. Griffin (Eds.), Teaching for diversity and social justice: A sourcebook (pp. 3-15). New York: Routledge. · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1037/0003-066X.52.4.449 · DOI
- Buckley, M. J. (1998). The Catholic University as promise and project: Reflections in a Jesuit idiom. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
- Bulhan, H. A. (1985). Frantz Fanon and the psychology of oppression. New York: Plenum. · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1037/0022-0167.47.2.155 · doi:10.1037/0022-0167.47.2.155 · Paper page
- Counts, G. S. (1978). Dare the schools build a new social order? Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
- 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02426.x · doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02426.x
- 10.1002/j.2161-1912.2001.tb00499.x · DOI
- Goodman, D. (2001). Promoting diversity and social justice: Educating people from privileged groups. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. · DOI · Paper page
- hooks, b. (1994). Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom. New York: Routledge.
- 10.1037/0003-066X.51.3.190 · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.51.3.190
- 10.1037/0022-0167.44.3.284 · doi:10.1037/0022-0167.44.3.284 · Paper page
- Martin-Baró, I. (1994). Writings for a liberation psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Miller, D. (1999). Principles of social justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1987.tb00776.x · doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1987.tb00776.x
- Pope-Davis, D. B. & Dings, J. G. (1995). The assessment of multicultural counseling competencies. In J. C. Ponterotto, J. M. Casas, L. A. Suzuki, & C. A. Alexander (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural counseling (pp. 287-311). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- 10.1037/0735-7028.26.3.322 · doi:10.1037/0735-7028.26.3.322
- 10.1037/0003-066X.52.5.517 · DOI
- Rawls, J. (1971). A theory of justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1037/0003-066X.51.11.1109 · DOI
- 10.1177/0011000094222001 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1177/0011000000286001 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1037/0022-0167.45.3.256 · doi:10.1037/0022-0167.45.3.256 · Paper page
- Stevens, E. & Wood, G. H. (1992). Justice, ideology, and education: An introduction to the social foundations of education. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Sue, D. W. (1995). Multicultural organizational development: Implications for the counseling profession. In J. G. Ponterotto, J. M. Casas, L. A. Suzuki, & C. M. Alexander (Eds.), Handbook of multicultural counseling (pp. 474-492). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
- 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1992.tb01642.x · DOI · Paper page
- Sue, D. W., Carter, R. T., Casas, J. M., Fouad, N. A., Ivey, A. E., Jensen, M., et al. (1998). Multicultural counseling competencies: Individual and organizational development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1037/0003-066X.53.4.440 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1177/0011000099272001 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1002/j.2161-1912.2001.tb00500.x · DOI
- 10.1177/0011000000286004 · DOI
- Young, I. M. (1990). Justice and the politics of difference. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Cited by
Quality and trustworthiness in qualitative research in counseling psychology.
Morrow, S. L. (2005) · Journal of Counseling Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-0167.52.2.250 · Cited by 3,199
Cultural humility: Measuring openness to culturally diverse clients.
Hook, J. N., Davis, D. E., Owen, J., Worthington, E. L., & Utsey, S. O. (2013) · Journal of Counseling Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0032595 · Cited by 1,317
Toward a psychological framework of radical healing in communities of color
French, B. H., Lewis, J. A., Mosley, D. V., Adames, H. Y., Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Chen, G. A., & Neville, H. A. (2020) · The Counseling Psychologist · doi:10.1177/0011000019843506 · Cited by 522
Practicing participatory action research.
Kidd, S. A., & Kral, M. J. (2005) · Journal of Counseling Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-0167.52.2.187 · Cited by 447
Qualitative Research in Counseling Psychology: Conceptual Foundations
Morrow, S. L. (2007) · The Counseling Psychologist · doi:10.1177/0011000006286990 · Cited by 438
Metadata
- Authors
- Vera, E. M., & Speight, S. L.
- Venue
- The Counseling Psychologist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-05
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 253-272
- ISSN
- 0011-0000 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3861
- OpenAlex
- W2160101004
- Cited by
- 857
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 20.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Multicultural Competence, Social Justice, and Counseling Psychology: Expanding Our Roles. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/0011000003031003001
- The paper
- Vera, E. M., & Speight, S. L. (2003). Multicultural Competence, Social Justice, and Counseling Psychology: Expanding Our Roles. The Counseling Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011000003031003001
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
