Career Counselling Approaches using Anti-Racist and Liberation Approaches
Description
People spend a considerable amount of time in educational and work settings, making these key environments where oppression in its many forms, including racism, sexism, heterosexism, transmisia, classism, ageism, and ableism, can be experienced. These persistent experiences of marginalisation contribute to ongoing educational, occupational, and mental health disparities, highlighting the critical role career development professionals play in fostering equitable access to opportunity and supporting meaningful career outcomes.
This timely and thought-provoking panel brings together 3–4 internationally recognised experts to explore how multicultural, social justice, and inclusive psychological science perspectives can strengthen career development practice. Drawing on the latest empirical research and theoretical advancements, presenters will examine practical career interventions that support culturally diverse individuals while also addressing the systemic and organisational factors that perpetuate inequity.
The session will showcase cultural and race-conscious theoretical models and vocational psychology frameworks applicable across a range of career development contexts. Through practical examples and evidence-informed discussion, participants will gain strategies for working more effectively with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds while also building the confidence to advocate for more inclusive policies, practices, and systems.
Whether you work in schools, tertiary education, employment services, government, community organisations, or private practice, this session will provide valuable insights into creating more inclusive career development services and strengthening your impact as a practitioner.
Learning Outcomes
By participating in this webinar, attendees will be able to:
Explain how systemic oppression and marginalisation influence career development, educational participation, employment outcomes, and wellbeing.
Apply multicultural, social justice, and inclusive psychological science perspectives within career development practice.
Explore contemporary cultural and race-conscious theories and vocational psychology frameworks to inform inclusive interventions.
Identify practical, evidence-based career interventions that effectively support culturally diverse individuals.
Recognise opportunities to influence organisational practices and broader systems to improve equity, access, and inclusion.
Reflect on their own practice and identify strategies to strengthen culturally responsive, ethical, and inclusive career development services.
This session is ideal for career development practitioners, counsellors, educators, researchers, policymakers, employment consultants, and organisational leaders seeking to build more equitable career systems and better support culturally diverse individuals throughout their career journeys.
CICA Competencies
Diversity and Inclusion
Applying culturally responsive, inclusive, and equitable approaches that recognise and value diversity while addressing barriers to career development.Ethical Practice
Promoting fairness, social justice, advocacy, and ethical decision-making to support equitable career outcomes for individuals and communities.Career Development Theory
Applying multicultural, social justice, and vocational psychology theories and evidence-based frameworks to inform effective career development interventions.
Lineup
Dr. Lisa Y. Flores
Dr. Lisa Y. Flores is the Frederick A. Middlebush Chair of Social Sciences and Associate Chair for Inclusive Excellence in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. She has expertise in the career development of women and Latinx and the integration of Latinx immigrants in rural communities. She has authored or co-authored almost 150 journal articles and book chapters and presented almost 300 conference presentations in these areas. She is co-editor of 5 texts in vocational/counseling psychology. She has been PI and co-PI on grants totaling $5.1 million from NSF, USDA, and US Department of Education to support her research. Dr. Flores’ research aims to understand the impact of psychosocial, cultural, and contextual variables on the educational and vocational decisions and satisfaction of Latinx in engineering.
Dr. Frederick Leong
Dr. Frederick Leong is Professor of Applied Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. He has authored or co-authored over 300 journal articles and book chapters and edited or co-edited 28 books. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Sage Encyclopedia of Counseling, APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology and the APA Handbook of Psychotherapy. He is the Founding Editor of the Asian American Journal of Psychology and also served as Associate Editor of the Archives of Scientific Psychology and the American Psychologist. His research focuses on career psychology, adaptability, cross-cultural psychopathology, cross-cultural psychotherapy, psychological testing, and Chinese Psychology.
Dr. Laura Reid Marks
Dr. Laura Reid Marks is an Associate Professor in the Center for Translational Behavioral Science in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine in the College of Medicine at Florida State University. She is originally from Kingston, Jamaica. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology, as well as her Master of Arts in Education and Education Specialist in School Counseling from the University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Purdue University, after completing her pre-doctoral internship at Arizona State University Counseling Services. Dr. Marks is the director of the G.R.O.W.T.H. Research Lab, which examines social determinants of health and career outcomes in marginalized populations.
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