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Orienting Counseling Students Toward Multiculturalism: Exploring Privilege During a New Student Orientation
Author(s) -
ESTRADA DIANE,
POULSEN SHRUTI,
CAN EDWARD,
WIGGINS MARSHA
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the journal of humanistic counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2161-1939
pISSN - 2159-0311
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1939.2013.00034.x
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , multiculturalism , orientation (vector space) , social justice , psychology , economic justice , multicultural education , social psychology , pedagogy , sociology , political science , criminology , law , geometry , mathematics
New counseling students often have strong reactions to the concept of privilege and become anxious when expected to address issues of multiculturalism personally and professionally. In this article, the authors describe a new student orientation model that focuses on addressing privilege and offer steps toward embracing multiculturalism and social justice.