Integrative Psychotherapy with Culturally Diverse Clients

2005 ◽  
pp. 321-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen E. Ivey ◽  
Jeff E. Brooks-Harris
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Multicultural Counseling ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Psychotherapy Integration ◽  
Racial Identity Development ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Therapeutic Interaction ◽  
Multicultural Therapy

Chapter 15 describes an integrative approach to psychotherapy with culturally diverse clients. Although the psychotherapy integration movement and the multicultural counseling movement have developed along parallel paths during the past few decades, there has been relatively little dialogue between the two groups. It also examines how both a client and therapist’s racial identity development has a crucial impact on their therapeutic interaction. It also embraces these themes of culture, identity, and integration by exploring two interrelated lines of thought related to psychotherapy with culturally diverse clients: multicultural therapy, and multicultural development.

scholarly journals "They say Black men won't make it, but I know I'm gonna make it" Ethnic and racial identity development in the context of cultural stereotypes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
leoandra onnie rogers ◽  
niobe way
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Racial Identity Development ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Cultural Stereotypes ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Divergence ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Sociohistorical Context

For more than a century, scholars have defined the self as a social phenomenon dependent on relationships and embedded within a sociohistorical context. Yet a review of the empirical study of identity over the past forty years reveals significant divergence from this individual-in-context perspective. This chapter returns to the sociocultural roots of identity development study, reviewing empirical research with adolescents from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and the works of others that focus on how cultural stereotypes about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, social class, and nationality intersect to form the context within which individuals construct, experience, and interpret their ethnic and racial identities. This review makes evident that identity is simultaneously personal and social and that stereotypes about social categories are a significant link that binds them. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for research and theory on identity development and for the field of psychology more broadly.

scholarly journals Self-Care: An Ethical Imperative for Anti-Racist Counselor Training

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Mitchell ◽  
Erin Binkley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Counselor Training ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Racial Identity Development ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Ethical Imperative ◽  
Development Models

Attention has been given to multicultural counseling, social justice and advocacy work over the last several decades; with this in mind, it is essential Counselors educators work as anti-racist change agents to understand the role of self-care in advocacy and be armed with self-care strategies based upon racial identity standing. Working through the lens of racial identity development models, educators will learn ways to support students of the dominant culture in engaging in self-care without initiating oppressive behaviors, and conversely will learn strategies to assist Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color (BIPOC) in enacting self-care without assisting in their own oppression. Thus, the purpose of this conceptual manuscript is to (a) provide a rationale for self-care as an ethical imperative, (b) introduce self-care strategies to employ while supporting anti-racist andragogy through intentional wellness, and (c) call students to build self-care routines focused on multiculturalism and social justice.

K–12 School Counselors Utilizing Critical Race Theory to Support the Racial Identity Development and Academic Achievement of African American Males

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_part_4) ◽  
pp. 2156759X2110400
Author(s):  
Brandee Appling ◽  
Shanel Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
African American Males ◽  
Racial Identity Development ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
K 12

This article examines the role of racial identity development in the academic achievement of African American adolescent males. Through the lens of critical race theory (CRT), we highlight how K–12 school counselors may support and enhance the schooling experiences of African American males by understanding and acknowledging how racial identity development may impact academic achievement. A focus on CRT in education emphasizes the continual persistence of racism ingrained in K–12 education located within the educational opportunities, curriculum, representation, and teacher perception of African American males. We offer insight into how school counselors may work to decrease barriers to achievement by analyzing the effect race and gender have on the identification, retention, and underachievement of their African American male students.

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