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Karlis, George – 1990
Members of ethnic and racial groups, such as African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, or Native Americans, particularly those who are unemployed and living in low income districts, have continued to struggle to overcome social barriers. A review of the literature reveals that the lack of opportunity or means to overcome social and…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Leisure Education, Low Income Groups
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Clayton, Bob; Lewis, Willie M. – NACADA Journal, 1984
The college campus is a microcosm of society, and it must provide minority and majority students with academic advising so that their maximum potentials as individuals and as members of the total community may be realized. A bibliography for background and understanding of the Black experience is provided. (MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Bibliographies, Black Colleges, Blacks
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Harleston, Bernard W. – Journal of College Admissions, 1985
Outlines some of the threats to higher education and issues a series of challenges to counselors to take education off the firing line. Discusses verbal, programmatic, and budgetary attacks on education, the Solomon Amendment, and commitment to minorities. (JAC)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Change, Educational Economics, Educational Quality
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Rayle, Andrea Dixon; Myers, Jane E. – Professional School Counseling, 2004
The influence of ethnic identity, acculturation, and mattering on wellness was examined for 176 minority and 286 non-minority adolescents attending a public high school. Participants completed the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, the Stephenson Multigroup Acculturation Scale, the General Mattering Scale, the Mattering to Others Questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Prevention, Minority Groups, Guidance
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Tatman, Anthony W. – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2004
The Hmong in the U.S., a refugee population from Southeast Asia, brought a rich culture with them. To maximize therapeutic success with Hmong clients, counselors must acknowledge and understand Hmong history, culture, and acculturation and the value placed on family and community. This article provides background information and suggestions for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Acculturation, Hmong People
Rifenbary, Deborah – 1991
Becoming a culturally skilled career counselor is an important step in working effectively with ethnic minorities. Much of the professional literature has indicated that a traditional counseling model, one that has been derived from a traditional white middle class model, may not be effective in working with culturally diverse clients. The model…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Counseling Techniques, Counselors
Hirsch, Judi – 1989
Schools must change, if more working class and minority children are to succeed in college. Reuven Feuerstein (1979, 1980) was given the task of assessing youth who arrived in Israel after World War II. Many scored so poorly on intelligence tests that they were thought to require custodial care. Feuerstein developed a method of mediated…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, College Students
Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC. – 1996
In 1991, the President announced America 2000, a complex and long-range plan designed to move every community toward the six national education goals. Consistent with this, the Office for Civil Rights instituted a National Enforcement Strategy designed to help protect equal educational opportunity for all students. This pamphlet has been prepared…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Kobayashi, Futoshi – 1999
This study investigates the controversy over whether or not culture has an effect on child and adolescent psychopathology. It presents the two opposing positions held in the field. The "universalists" argue that child and adolescent psychopathology is significantly similar across cultures. The "culturalists" argue that culture…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Biological Influences, Child Development, Children
Majka, Lorraine – Migration World Magazine, 1990
Reviews the backgrounds and problems of Vietnamese Amerasian youth who have migrated to the United States. Concludes that resettlement workers should focus on integrating Amerasian males, and especially vulnerable male youth, into the Vietnamese American community where ethnic support can avert antisocial behavior. (FMW)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Asian Americans, At Risk Persons, Immigrants
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Enns, Carolyn Zerbe; Sinacore, Ada L.; Ancis, Julie R.; Phillips, Julia – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2004
This article summarizes major themes associated with 3 literatures regarding pedagogy and training about diversity issues: (a) the diversity feminisms, (b) the multicultural education literature, and (c) the literature on multicultural counselor training. In addition to providing a brief overview of multiple approaches within these 3 literatures,…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Counselor Training, Multicultural Education, Feminism
Office for Civil Rights (ED), Washington, DC. – 1991
This pamphlet summarizes the requirements pertaining to counseling practices contained in the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of Education Amendments of 1972, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Also, this pamphlet reviews policies and practices which have been adopted by some school…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Counselors, Disabilities
Ruiz, Esther; Miranda, Luis A. – 1986
This second edition directory lists 138 year-round precollege and university minority engineering programs that were staffed as of March 1, 1986. Entries were collected through questionnaires mailed to the field. Respondents listed their programs as full-time if professional staff devotes 75% or more of their time to minority engineering work…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Institutes (Training Programs)
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Hays, Danica G.; Chang, Catherine Y.; Dean, Jennifer K. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2004
The authors in this qualitative study explored how White counselors define and experience privilege and oppression. Specifically, 2 research questions were addressed in semistructured interviews with 8 counselors: How do White counselors conceptualize privilege and oppression as separate but related constructs? and What experiences do White…
Descriptors: Counselor Attitudes, Counselor Training, Whites, Counselors
Lee, Courtland C.; Thomas, Antoinette R. – 1983
While more new industrial jobs have been created in rural areas than in metropolitan centers in the last two decades, both white and minority rural workers lag behind their urban counterparts in vocational development. Since this rural labor force is composed mainly of the poor who have little schooling, formal skill training, or on-the-job…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Blacks, Career Counseling
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