Addressing Power, Privilege, and Oppression in Rehabilitation Counselors’ Multicultural Education: A Multilevel Approach

Abstract

Rehabilitation counselor education must provide students with effective multicultural training to ensure optimal consumer outcomes at different levels; however, the current focus on multicultural competencies is not enough to prepare students to meet the needs of individuals with multiple marginalized identities. Issues related to power, oppression, and privilege need to be addressed through an intersectional decolonization lens. Thus, the article aims to examine current rehabilitation literature and incorporate cultural humility, intersectionality, and decolonization into multicultural training in the rehabilitation field with a multilevel approach. Recommendations are provided at department and program, and individual levels.