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- Title
Infusing Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Reflection on Establishing Mandarin Counseling Services.
- Authors
Lei Wang; Vaughan, Ellen L.; Shitao Chen; Gilman, Lynn
- Abstract
Due to the unique needs for and barriers to help-seeking among Asian international students, mental health services must attend to both culturally specific and linguisticspecific services. This paper describes successful e#orts to establish counseling services in Mandarin Chinese iii a large Midwestem university counseling training clinic with a commitment to multiculturalism and social justice, We Brst discu,m,9 the benefits of linguistic-specific mental health services, as well as the establishment of Mandarin counseling services and the Mandarin Mental Wellness Counseling Group. For the 8-week Mandarin Mental Wellness Counseling Group, we include a table with a sunimary of our agenda and interventions for readers to replicate and imple,nentsuch a group. We also share considerations for supervision that is only available in English. We then discuss the rewards and challenges of establishing Mandarin counseling services. We conclude with recommendations for hiture eforts in practice, training, and resecuch.
- Subjects
COUNSELING; MENTAL health services; GROUP counseling; SOCIAL justice; STUDENT health services; MENTAL health counseling; MANDARIN dialects
- Publication
Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2021, Vol 43, Issue 2, p95
- ISSN
1040-2861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17744/mehc.43.2.01