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Mental health counseling and the AMCD Multicultural Counseling Competencies: a civil debate.

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This article introduces a JMHC special section on the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development's (AMCD) Multicultural Counseling Competencies (Arredondo et al., 1996). Authors were asked to respond to Weinrach and Thomas's (2002) recent critique of the Competencies published in JMHC. The present article provides an overview of the positions taken by Weinrach and Thomas in their critique. Four articles by six preeminent leaders in the field of multiculralism follow this introduction. The special section concludes with an article by Weinrach and Thomas, who respond to the reactors' comments and expand on their original position.

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Several years ago we began the process of developing a critique of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development's (AMCD) Multicultural Counseling Competencies (the Competencies; Arredondo et al., 1996). The multicultural counseling community had promoted the Competencies as being indispensable to the training and education of mental health practitioners across a variety of professions. The American Psychological Association (APA, 2002) adopted a similar document as "guidelines on...

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