Cultural and Social Justice Counseling / International and Cultural Psychology (PDF)

Farah Ibrahim is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Society for Counseling Psychology) and a licensed psychologist (CT, DC, CO). She is past president of Counselors for Social Justice (2002-3) a division of the American Counseling Association. She has served at the University of Connecticut, Howard University, and as Chair of Teacher and Counselor Education at Oregon State University as a tenured full professor. She is currently serving as full professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver. She is the author of the Existential Worldview theory and is the developer of the following instruments: Scale to Assess Worldview© with Harris Kahn, the "Cultural Identity Check List©" (Ibrahim, 1990, 2007) the "Cultural Competence Survey©" (Ibrahim, 2005), and the United States Acculturation Index©  (Ibrahim, 2008).  She has conducted research on worldview and training for cultural effectiveness, gender and worldview, organizational culture and worldview, identity development, South Asian identity issues, trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to oppression, and infusion of social justice and cultural competencies in counseling curricula.  Her latest research has focused on counseling Muslims in the West.  She has a video on "Counseling Muslims" marketed by Microtraining Associates.  She has assisted with several grant projects as a consultant or as co-principal investigator focusing on cultural competence training, effect of domestic violence on children and adolescents, and intergenerational trauma and its impact and health and mental health.  Her current research interests are cultural competence and social justice training, cross-cultural research on worldviews, assessment in cross-cultural settings, identity development in a diverse society, Counseling South Asian immigrants and international students, and alleviation, and elimination of trauma and violence in society, social justice and

“Ibrahim and Heuer’s edited book … will help psychologists and other mental health professionals obtain this necessary understanding and skill. … book assists with practical tips on how this can be achieved, further enabling the clinician to better meet the needs of his or her clients … . It ushers our profession to a sense of responsibility, in an informative and insightful way, reminding us that we have a special responsibility to those who are oppressed because they are different.” (Rehman Y. Abdulrehman, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 61 (36), September, 2016)