Transforming Counseling Psychology Curriculum and Praxis InitiativeWhile valuing diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice is viewed as central to our identity as counseling psychologists, we have not fully enacted those values within our training programs. Despite our values, our curriculum, whether in a doctoral program, internship, or post-doc, is based in Eurocentric positivistic perspectives, frameworks, theories, and scholarship. Rather than centering scholars of color, Queer and Trans scholars, and scholars from other marginalized groups, our curriculum often sprinkles in these scholars and their work as alternatives to the standard psychological canon. Instead of making critical perspectives and theories foundational to counseling psychology, they are often relegated to multicultural or social justice courses. Although the profession-wide accreditation standards set by APA require infusion of multicultural content in all courses and training, there is no agreed upon understanding of what curricular infusion means (Reynolds, et al., 2022).And while there has been increased attention on decolonizing our curriculum, there appears to be limited understanding of what it would mean to indigenize what and how we teach. Instead, changes to the curriculum and our training programs are typically additive, incremental, and far too often surface-level. The Transforming Counseling Psychology Curriculum and Praxis initiative created workgroups to critically examine and deconstruct how various competencies, courses, and internship/postdoc seminars are currently taught, and then re-imagine and reconstruct new and transformative ways to teach and train. As part of that initiative, we created a showcase at APA where those workgroups presented their materials in hopes of providing resources and materials for other counseling psychologists wanting to transform their curriculum in the following areas:
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