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Racism and White Counselor Training: Influence of White Racial Identity Theory and Research
Author(s) -
PackBrown Sherlon P.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1999.tb02425.x
Subject(s) - racism , white (mutation) , identity (music) , inclusion (mineral) , psychology , counselor education , social psychology , medical education , sociology , gender studies , higher education , medicine , political science , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , acoustics , law , gene
White counselors currently and in the future are projected to constitute the majority of counseling practitioners. In a racist and culturally diverse society, White counseling students need to learn to effectively counsel racially diverse clients. In this article, the inclusion of awareness, knowledge, and skills around racism and racial identity development is discussed as critical to counselor training programs with White counseling students. Intentional and strategic efforts to assist White counseling students recognize their personal racial identity and privileges of racism are presented as tools to assist the counseling profession to reduce the perpetuation of racist attitudes and racism.