Multicultural counseling and psychology evolved as a response to the Eurocentrism prevalent in the Western healing professions and has been used to challenge the Eurocentric, patriarchal, and heteronormative constructs commonly embedded in counseling and psychology. Ironically, some of the practices and paradigms commonly associated with multiculturalism reinforce the very hegemonic practices and paradigms that multicultural counseling and psychology approaches were created to correct.

In"Decolonizing "Multicultural" Counseling through Social Justice," counseling and psychology scholars...

Multicultural counseling and psychology evolved as a response to the Eurocentrism prevalent in the Western healing professions and has been used to challenge the Eurocentric, patriarchal, and heteronormative constructs commonly embedded in counseling and psychology. Ironically, some of the practices and paradigms commonly associated with multiculturalism reinforce the very hegemonic practices and paradigms that multicultural counseling and psychology approaches were created to correct.

InDecolonizing "Multicultural" Counseling through Social Justice, counseling and psychology...