Multicultural Career Counseling in Secondary Schools

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Multicultural Career Counseling in Secondary
Schools

• Mi Jin Chung
• SDS 6411/6413
• University of Florida

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Demographic Changes in Schools

• The rate of students who have multicultural
  background is remarkably getting higher.
• They have special concerns from their unique
  cultural background.
• Then, who can help them effectively?
• Career counselor is a unique position in helping
  them move into the schools and future workplaces.
  

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Multicultural Issues in Career Counseling

• Because of cultural
  differences, students
• face diverse challenges.(language barriers, value
  systems related to family, traditional role
  models, career choices)
• feel confusion, anxiety, stress and depression in
  the dominant school culture.
• take a passive attitude in their career
  development process.

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Individual Counseling Strategy

• Multicultural Career Assessment
• must be considered multicultural factor
• must be made appropriately for diverse students
  lack of linguistic equivalence.
• alternative and non-standardized multicultural
  career assessment tools
• The Missouri Occupational Card Sorts, The
  Singapore Occupational Card Sorts, Ward
  Binghams Multicultural Career Counseling
  Checklist, The Real Game series

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Small Group Counseling Strategy

• Peer Helper Programs
• Peer helper high-grade students serve as a
  mentor and aid for new comers or low-grade
  students.
• Program multicultural concerns sharing, academic
  planning, study skills, career assessment
  follow-up, and time management.
• The National Peer Helper Association excellent
  resources-development of peer helper programs.

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Conclusion Cultural Responses

• School counselor must be culturally responsive to
  students unique needs.

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Some Recommendations

• To cope with multicultural career concerns,
• More professional researches
• Appropriate assessment tools
• Career services such as activities,programs,
  and resources(be
  considered multicultural career issues)