This episode is eligible for CE credit - Counselors & Social Workers

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In this episode, I'll be talking with Brean'a Parker, PhD, NCC  about deconstructing counselor education to better align our professional goals to embody multiculturalism, social justice, problem-based inquiry and creativity. We'll discuss the importance of aligning our training to support critical awareness, inquiry, practice to support diverse clients and clinical populations.

Learning objectives

• Define Multicultural and Social Justice Competencies (MSJCC) and understand historical context of their development.


• Identify milestones in the development of MSJCCs as they relate to practice of counseling


• Examine ways in which the counseling and other psychiatry-based professions have either contributed to or maintain racism in the practice of counseling.


• Distinguish strategies for aligning counselor education programs with current MSJCC standards.


• Consider barriers to implementing change in counselor education programs in the context of higher education.

Meet our guest

Dr. Brean'a Parker, PhD, NCC is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development’s Counselor Education Program at NC State University. Her research interest focus on stories and experiences of violence and trauma within Black communities especially for community members occupying multiply marginalized positions; healing and pleasure praxis for survivors and victims of interpersonal violence; and cultivating a social justice based counseling training curriculum that embodies the lived realities, strengths and power within communities historically disenfranchised and oppressed. Additionally, Dr. Parker focuses on how mediums such as storytelling can inform counseling interventions, education, training and future research within different communities historically overlooked by academia.