This article examines how young African immigrant men in Southern Ontario cope with the dominant racial identity at school in an effort to improve their academic performance and access postsecondary education (PSE). Critical race theory in education is employed to explain how the young men distance themselves from stereotypes about Black…

Examines the importance of the white therapist understanding his or her own feelings, countertransference, and the impact of the therapist's need to be powerful. Also explores the need of therapists for awareness of client-therapist interpersonal similarity and the need for an understanding of our social system. (Author/GC)

Examined therapists' perceptions of behaviors of African-American and white adolescents. Twenty psychotherapists received scenario involving white adolescent; 20 received identical scenario involving African-American adolescent. Therapists rated clinical significance of scenario behaviors. Behaviors of African-American adolescent were rated…

Black counselors tended to use a societal focus of problem diagnosis more frequently than did White counselors. However, while Whites' diagnoses were almost exclusively individual, Blacks employed a more equal distribution of individually and societally focused responses. The significance of counselor sex differences was relatively weak.…

Examines how Black churches provide a source of psychological support to African Americans. Uses group theory as a conceptual framework to discuss the findings of focus groups. Discusses implications for counselors, including challenging their own biases towards religion that may affect their ability to make effective interventions, and being…

Negro counselor educator in south presents observations on nature of racism. Argues for improved total school environment. Differing point of view follows in brief reaction by Don W. Locke, Northeast Louisiana State College, Monroe. Papers presented at Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, Lexington, Kentucky, 1968. (CJ)

Racial identity has been theorized to significantly influence cross-racial counseling relationships. In this study, the authors examined the influence of White racial identity on working alliance perceptions in a cross-racial vicarious counseling analogue. A significant interaction effect was found between race of the counselor vignette and White…

Being black and disabled are characteristics which are frequently rejected by the larger society. When counselors and black disabled clients come together, they usually bring different life experiences because of physical abilities and race. There may be more similarities if both the client and counselor are disabled or both are of the same race.…

Maintains that if counselor is to be effective with Black counselees, he must orient himself to techniques that will quickly bring the counselee to a level of awareness and action. Describes several techniques and gives examples. (Author/HMV)

Determined if racial labels contributed to counselors' assessments of clients. Stepwise multiple regression using the no-label condition as a reference point indicated that Black-labeled cases contributed more to prediction of counselors' ratings than counseling experience, physical social distance to minorities, or prior contact. Counselors…

White rehabilitation-counseling graduate students reviewed case materials for a client portrayed as African American to one group and as White to the other. The African-American client was judged to have less potential for education and employment after participants reviewed the initial client information. This difference persisted even after…

Describes the religious and spiritual dimensions of African American culture and offers strategies, such as metaphor and music, for incorporating these strategies into counseling. Examines the difference between religion and spirituality, provides an overview of African Americans' spiritual traditions, and profiles the neglect of religion and…

The acquisition of culture-specific knowledge through reading and/or experience is an important component of cross-cultural counseling education. This study explores the relationship between counselor trainees' culture specific knowledge and their ability to empathize in general. It would seem reasonable to assume that those who belong to a…

Black and white counselors in South Africa live in legally predetermined separate worlds highly charged with emotion. Professional neutrality in such a circumstance would be a myth. Counselors are charged on ethical grounds to address the effects on the client and themselves of the socio-political condition. Failure to do so, even at that level,…