Crisis Counseling for Black Lives Matter Protests

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-211
Author(s):  
Darius A. Green ◽  
Brittany A. Williams ◽  
Kyulee Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Crisis Counseling ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Public Demonstration

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black individuals during the summer of 2020 was accompanied by widespread public demonstration and protest. Despite the peaceful nature of most demonstrations, data indicate that protesters experienced police violence at a disproportionate rate compared to demonstrations associated with other movements. Due to the crisis and unrest that undue police violence toward Black communities can cause, it is imperative that counselors identify ways to support communities in their collective acts toward resistance and liberation. This article reviews how counselors can integrate the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies and the American Counseling Association’s Advocacy Competencies into crisis counseling responses that support protesters of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Protesting During a Pandemic: Narratives on Risk Taking and Motivation to Participating in the 2020 March on Washington

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872199933
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cobbina ◽  
Ashleigh LaCourse ◽  
Erika J. Brooke ◽  
Soma Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Media ◽  
March On Washington

The study elucidates the interplay of COVID-19 and the wave of Black Lives Matter protests to assess motivation and risk taking for protest participation. We draw on protesters’ accounts to examine how police violence influenced the participants decision making to participate in the 2020 March on Washington during a pandemic that exacerbated the risks already in place from protesting the police. We found that protesters’ social position and commitment to the cause provided motivations, along with a zeal to do more especially among White protesters. For Black participants, the images in the media resonated with their own experiences of structural racism from police.

Where do Black lives matter? Race, stigma, and place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 898-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna M. Loyd ◽  
Anne Bonds
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Critical Criminology ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Spatial Metaphor ◽  
The City ◽  
Discursive Constructions ◽  
Zip Code

This article analyzes how the spatial metaphor of 53206, a zip code within the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, connects with crises in the legitimacy of policing and politicians’ claims to care about Black lives. It examines how, in the context of deepening racialized poverty, ongoing mobilizations against police violence, and increasing rates of violent crime, liberal and conservative rhetoric about 53206 largely obscures the roles that decades of deindustrialization and labor assaults, metropolitan racial and wealth segregation, and public school and welfare restructuring play in producing racial and class inequality to instead emphasize racializing tropes about ‘Black-on-Black crime,’ broken homes, and uncaring Black communities. Situating the examination within critical analysis of urban poverty, geographic scholarship on the racialization of space, and critical criminology, the authors consider the salience of the term territorial stigmatization as a means to understand how historical and contemporary processes of racialized capitalism shape Milwaukee’s urban and social divides. They argue that discursive constructions of 53206 and the rhetorical posture of saving Black lives deployed by elected officials have had the effect of entrenching policing power while further rendering neighborhoods like Milwaukee’s Northside as already dead and dying.

Language and Social Psychology Approaches to Race, Racism, and Social Justice: Analyzing the Past and Revealing Ways Forward

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-28
Author(s):  
Natasha Shrikant ◽  
Howard Giles ◽  
Daniel Angus
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Justice Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Justice Research

Issues of race, racism, and social justice are under-studied topics in this journal. This Prologue, and our Special Issue (S.I.) more broadly, highlights ways that language and social psychology (LSP) approaches can further our understanding of race, racism, and social justice, while suggesting more inclusive directions for their theoretical development. Acknowledging the inspiration from the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, we begin by discussing our deeply-held personal and emotional connections to recent societal events, including police violence against innocent Black civilians and the prevalence of anti-Asian hate. What follows, then, is: a historical analysis of past JLSP publications on these issues, a proposal for more intersections between LSP and communication social justice research, and an overview of the BLM movement together with the four articles that follow. We conclude by advocating for individual and institutional practices that can create socially-just changes by LSP scholars in the academy.

A Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies Debate

2019 ◽  
pp. 8-11
Author(s):  
Tamara J. Hinojosa ◽  
Carlos Medina V ◽  
Suzanne D. Mudge
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Competencies

Just Eat!

2021 ◽  
pp. 546-558
Author(s):  
Kristen N. Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Family Counseling ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Rich Description ◽  
Counseling Approach

This chapter explores the application of the 2015 Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC) in conjunction with an eclectic family systems when counseling a Latin@ family. The Martinez family was referred to family counseling due to concerns of one of the children's school counselors, regarding a possible eating disorder diagnosis. The case study includes a rich description of the first session with the Mexican-American Martinez family, and examines family dynamics around the identified client, Javier. The Martinez family includes the following members: (1) Mañuel, Javier's 41 year-old father who owns his own construction business; (2) Camila, Javier's 38 year-old stay-at-home mother; (3) Alejandro, Javier's 17-year-old brother; and (4) Isabella, Javier's 12 year-old sister. A discussion of the author's cultural background, counseling approach, and use of the MSJCC lens when working with the Martinez family is also included. Initial goals and prognosis for treatment are considered.

Outro

Renegades ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 123-128
Author(s):  
Trevor Boffone
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
New Music ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Revolution

The Outro explores how the Renegades throughout this book used their social media platforms and clout to further social justice messages during the height of the renewed Black Lives Matter movement following the murder of George Floyd in summer 2020. Renegade Zoomers played a significant role in celebrating Blackness and made many of these “moves” on social media. Whether it was through attending marches, creating viral dance challenges, or producing new music, Renegades positioned their creativity, joy, and labor as central to the movement for Black lives. Their work forced onlookers, moreover, to recognize the labor of Black girls in our social movements. Renegades reveal, ultimately, that the revolution will be digital.

The Past Guides the Future: Implementing the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies

2020 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneliese A. Singh ◽  
Sylvia C. Nassar ◽  
Patricia Arredondo ◽  
Rebecca Toporek
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Navigating Toxic Masculinity in Clients as a Beginning Therapist

2020 ◽  
pp. 264-283
Author(s):  
Jeffrey K. Christensen ◽  
Justin D. Henderson ◽  
Cort M. Dorn-Medeiros ◽  
Ian Lertora
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Counseling Students ◽  
Relational Cultural Theory ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Beginning Counselors ◽  
Male Clients

The purpose of this chapter is to provide counseling students with a framework that will allow them to broach gender with male clients and to navigate conversations that may elicit anxiety for beginning counselors. This will be done through the case example of Whitney, a graduate student who just started internship. Her client is Rick, a client in his 50s, who is coming to services because of receiving a DUI and needing to complete counseling for his diversion mandate. Whitney is younger than Rick and has the experience of having some discomforting exchanges with him, such as remarks on how “bright” she is and a passing comment her outfit. The strategies proposed in this case study are grounded in the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies and in Relational Cultural Theory and will give students a framework for understanding clients who may respond like Rick.

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