DIGEST-Volume-10-Issue-2-FULL ISSUE

18 TPC Digest | L iterature on the physical design of counseling spaces suggests that calm and comfortable school counseling offices support students’ emotional disclosure. However, many counselors fail to consider the perspectives of clients when designing counseling environments. Scholars have called for school counselors to invite youth to co-create interventions as a means to promote cultural responsiveness and honor students’ cultural knowledge. In short, research indicates that an understanding of clients’ cultural differences is imperative when making environment design choices. In pursuit of using multicultural practice in schools, recent researchers have demonstrated that urban inner-city youth identify as part of hip-hop culture and that hip-hop recording studios have functioned as a community-defined outlet for catharsis. Therefore, when aiming to design culturally responsive counseling environments, it is important to note that the hip-hop recording studio has also held an important place in hip-hop culture and is largely unexplored in counseling literature. Toward Culturally Competent School Counseling Environments Hip-Hop Studio Construction Ian P. Levy, Edmund S. Adjapong