Culturally Responsive Counseling Leadership

As is true with many works addressing multiculturalism and social justice in counseling, this chapter may take time to fully digest and understand in a way that empowers us to acknowledge ourselves as a cultural being and reflect on ways we can incorporate culturally responsive counseling leadership in our practice. Culturally responsive counseling leaders encompass four core characteristics: cultural awareness, culturally sensitivity, cultural competence, and cultural responsiveness. Counseling leadership began to magnify multiculturalism, which established a pathway to a professional counseling identity that was distinct from that of other helping professions. The chronosystem represents the environmental and sociohistorical influences that prompt changes over time. In the counseling profession, leaders can acknowledge this and recognize that things will change over time, and we hope they will change for the better. Counseling leaders can draw feedback from multiple sources to inform their continued use of advocacy action steps and to provide context in their own self‐evaluations.