Supporting school counselor’s multicultural self-efficacy development through Hip Hop based coursework

ABSTRACT

This mixed-methods single-subject design study explored the impact of Hip Hop based counselor education coursework on school counseling master’s student’s multicultural competence development. In this study, students were trained in using a Hip Hop mixtape-making model for group work, and then facilitated small-groups during their internships. Analysis of repeated survey measures and two focus groups detail the impact of this novel training program on the participants’ development and offer implications for research and practice.

KEYWORDS:

• Cultural competence
• counselor education
• school counseling
• Hip Hop

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).