EDUC324
FOUNDATIONS OF
MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING
Module 1
Dr. Masahiro Minami
Ph.D., R.C.C. (#3431)
Associate Professor
Faculty of Education, SFU
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Land acknowledgement
• VANCOUVER CAMPUS
• Simon Fraser University
respectfully acknowledges
the unceded traditional
territories including,
• the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw
(Squamish),
• səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)
and
• xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)
Nations,
• on which SFU Vancouver is
located.
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Outline of Module 1
1. Introduction
2. Review of course syllabus, schedule, assignments, logistics
3. Major theme in multicultural counselling 1: Defining “Culture” &
“culture”
4. Experiential exercise 1: Exploring “culture”
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Introduction
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Name, Major
Place of origin
Plan after grad if any
Why MC? What specifically do you hope to learn?
1 ‘shocker’
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Syllabus, schedule, assignment,
logistics review
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MAJOR THEME IN
MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING 1
Defining ‘Culture’ and ‘culture’
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Exploring “culture”
• Theoretical/Conceptual Definition (Socio/Anthropological)
• Kluckhohn and Kroeber (1952) collected more than 150 different definitions
of “culture.”
“Shared learned meanings and behaviors that are transmitted from within a
social activity context for purposes of promoting individual/social adjustment,
growth, and development. Culture has both external (e.g., artifacts, roles, activity
contexts, institutions) and internal (e.g., values, beliefs, attitudes, activity
contexts, patterns of consciousness, personality styles, epistemology)
representations. The shared meanings and behaviors are subject to continuous
change and modification in response to changing internal and external
circumstances.”
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Something more practical?
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Counselling psychology – Practical/relational
Experiential Exercise (Exp.Ex.) 1: Exploring “culture”
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Defining “culture”
(cont.)
• Practical Definition (Counselling Psychology?)
• “reified variables that make us similar or different”
(Minami, 2017)
• Culture up to 80’s (Race/Ethnicity)
• culture in 90’s onward (cultural variables)
• Intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1989).
• Orthogonal cultural identification theory (Oetting &
Beauvais, 1990).
• Personal dimensions of identity (Arredondo, 1996)
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culture is within you…
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We are all multicultural
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Every relationship is multicultural
Individual A
Race
Race
Ethnicity
Ethnicity
Age
Age
Value/Belief
Value/Belief
Sex
Sex
SES
SES
Language
Language
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Individual B
Minami (2008)
Every counselling relationship is multicultural
Counsellor
Race
Race
Ethnicity
Ethnicity
Age
Age
Value/Belief
Value/Belief
Sex
Sex
SES
SES
Language
Language
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Client
Minami (2008)
References
• Arredondo, P., Toporek, R., Brown, S. P., Jones, J., Locke, D. C., Sanchez, J., & Stadler, H. (1996). OperaEonalizaEon of
the mulEcultural counseling competencies. Journal of MulEcultural Counseling and Development, 24, 42-78.
• Coleman HLK. Por/olio assessment of mul5cultural counseling competency. The Counseling Psychologist, 24: 216229, 1996
• Crenshaw, K. (1989) "Demarginalizing the Intersec5on of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Cri5que of
An5discrimina5on Doctrine, Feminist Theory and An5racist Poli5cs," University of Chicago Legal Forum: Vol. 1989 ,
Ar5cle 8.
Available at: hXps://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8
• Kroeber, A. L., & Kluckhohn, C. (1952). Culture: A cri5cal review of concepts and defini5ons. New York: Vintage
Books.
• Minami, M. (2017). Core© Knowledge (132 pages). Simon Fraser University, Milieu Children and Family Services,
B.C., Canada.
• Oefng, E. R., & Beauvais, R. (1991). Orthogonal cultural iden5fica5on theory: The cultural iden5fica5on of minority
adolescents. Interna5onal Journal of the Addic5ons, 25, 655-685.
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