Rebecca L Toporek

Rebecca L Toporek
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Professor
Counseling, College of Health and Social Sciences
Bio:
Welcome to my faculty web page. My main emphases are career and college counseling, multicultural competence, and social justice and advocacy. These are the arenas in which I live and breathe. I am challenged to continually develop myself both personally and professionally in these areas and hope that I can share that challenge with my students. |
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My Training and Experience Prior to receiving my doctoral degree, I was blessed to work as a counselor and administrator at Mission College for two years and DeAnza College for 6 years. Community college counseling is very close to my heart. The best mentors and the people who challenged me to start a lifetime journey of multicultural awareness came from DeAnza College especially Jacqueline Reza and Shirley Kawazoe. Other wonderful mentors have continued to challenge and support me and for that I am so thankful. Thanks to Janet Helms, Don Pope-Davis, Derald Wing Sue, Patricia Arredondo, Allen Ivey, Thomas Parham, Judy Daniels, Michael D'Andrea, Judy Lewis, Will Liu, and many, many, many others. |
Resources
Counseling Resources for Multicultural and Social Justice
- Advocacy Competencies (American Counseling Association) https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/competencies/aca-advocacy-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=d177522c_4
- Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/competencies/multicultural-and-social-justice-counseling-competencies.pdf?sfvrsn=20
- Taking Action Against Racism (Society for Counseling Psychology) http://www.div17.org/TAAR/
- Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology http://www.psysr.org/jsacp/
Counseling Organizations
- American Counseling Association www.counseling.org
- California Coalition for Counselor Licensure http://www.caccl.org/
- Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development http://www.amcdaca.org
- Counselors for Social Justice http://counselorsforsocialjustice.com/
- Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology http://www.psysr.org/jsacp/
Career Counseling Organizations
- National Career Development Association http://ncda.org/
- National Employment Counseling Association www.employmentcounseling.org
- San Francisco State University Career Center http://www.sfsu.edu/~career/