1.) Introduction, who is your client? Review Lisa's (the counselor's) interactions with Wendy and her supervisor. Identify at least two interactions that could be considered microaggressions.
First meeting a client an assessment will be made after reviewing the questionnaires, and sitting down and discussing what brings my client to counseling today?
Wendy, talked to her White therapist, Christian, about challenges in single parenting and going to school.
My introduction starts with who, I am as a counselor, then I employ active listening skills. After, the initial introduction and hearing Wendy’s story in entirety the consideration of the potential for oppression and discrimination is agreed with a supervisor is present.
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Women whom are considered second class citizens are cast in ghetto settings, or music videos that glorify instances of men sexually objectifying them. This form of microaggression applies to settings that man is dominate, and gender is the microaggression in a subtle form of sexism on women (Lewis, 2012). Jobs that exclude promotion of women, or require woman can not advance to leadership positions within the company is an example of workplace gender sexism. The combination of gendered racism is the simultaneous experience of both racism and sexism (Lewis, 2012). Further consideration of Wendy’s situation and story will either rule in favor or rule out the occurrence of these oppressive practices. Considering racism's pervasiveness in African American life, its deleterious effects on the psychological and somatic health of its victims, and its permanence in American society, counselors and other mental health practitioners have an ethical obligation to address these issues with their African American clients (Utsey, …show more content…
Traveling and living in Korea has exposed me to a wide range of situations in which embarrassment or comments are a reality for a mixed race marriage. My wife and I had been married for several years before arriving to Korea, and upon our arrival we agreed that we would visit with relatives and take a break in a hotel in the area after the first week. Our visit was fun and the time came when we decided we would have our date night and later go to a hotel in the vicinity of her mother’s home. We arrived at the hotel and a young Korean couple was promptly issued keys to their room, and away to their room they went. We then asked for a room and were turned away because they were all booked up! It immediately occurred to me the owner had turned us away because we were a mixed couple. In the same way as our passage above Americans are type cast as loud and obnoxious, I have have learned, been warned (by my wife), and developed a quiet withdrawn response to situations in Asian countries. The thought is if you loose face in public that you are ignorant and you are the one who has a problem, so in this instance my wife and I just left. Our response was to go to another hotel and she went alone to be issued the key, pay, and I waited outside once she paid for the key and was assigned a room then she came and got me to go to
Dr. Ronald L. Jackson’s piece titled “Mommy…There’s a nigger at the door” (which appears in Journal of Counseling & Development; Winter99, Vol. 77 Issue 1, p4) shares his experience with racism as a child and continues on as it follows him into adulthood. And expressing that what we instill in our children impacts their lives in a huge way.
Facing sexism and mistreatment at the hands of oppressive men is one of the biggest challenges a woman can face in contemporary and traditional societies. All challenges animate life, and we are given purpose when we deem it necessary to overcome said trials. Post-completion, life’s tests let us emerge with maturity and tenacity that we could not find elsewhere. Janie and Hester were dealt unfair hands in life, yet instead of folding and taking the easy way out, they played the game. They played, lost, and played again, and through this incessant perseverance grew exponentially as human beings.
In America today, race/ethnicity, class categorization, and gender inequalities are just some of the most controversial issues that have created social division in every facet of our society. Gender inequality for one, remains a significant issue from the past up to this day. Looking at history, women have struggled to gain equal rights as well as equal pay against their male counterpart. As described in her book, “Cutting into the Meatpacking Line”, Deborah Fink detailed the inequalities against women and ethnic groups in the meatpacking plant where she had a first-hand experience as a worker. Furthermore, capitalism played an important role in the inequalities in race, gender, culture, and ethnicity, and it has also legitimized the disparities
illustrates the discrimination against women and the issues that arise from a gender double standard society.
Miller, J., & Garran, A. M. (2008). Racism in the United States: Implications for the helping professions. Belmont, CA: Thomson Brooks/Cole.
Earlier in the semester we watched a video over Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy. This video was inspiring for people to look at what has happened in our history and society. This has been a major social injustice to African-Americans for so long, and it is now time that it needs to be confronted. People are often confused about why some people get upset about the way African-Americans react to some things, it is because they never had the opportunity to heal from their pain in history. In the article “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome,” it is talked about how racism is, “a serious illness that has been allowed to fester for 400 years without proper attention” (Leary, Hammond, and Davis, “Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome”). This is
Racism has been a huge problem throughout the United States and every individual struggles with the unproductive messages of racism that is being passed on through from larger societies. Many people suffered from this in silence and it is what hits the hardest on children and youth who lack the life experience to understa...
African American women are considered the most disadvantaged group vulnerable to discrimination and harassment. Researchers have concluded that their racial and gender classification may explain their vulnerable position within society, despite the strides these women have made in education, employment, and progressing their families and communities (Chavous et al. 2004; Childs 2005; Hunter 1998; Settles 2006; Wilkins 2012). Most people agree that race and gender categories are explained as the biological differences between individuals in our society; however sociologists understand that race and gender categories are social constructions that are maintained on micro and macro levels. Historically, those in power who control the means of production within a society have imposed race, class, and gender meanings onto the minority population in order to maintain their dominant position and justify the unequal treatment of minority individuals by the divisions of race, class, and gender categories (Collins 2004; Nguyen & Anthony 2014; Settles 2006;).
The African American community is suffering with the issue of inadequate mental health care for many decades. There is a deep lack of understanding about what mental illness is and there are many barriers that hinder African Americans from receiving the care that they need. People are unaware of the effects of mental illness, and what mental illness can encompass. “Most importantly, mental health includes people’s feelings of worth in the context of the total cultural and societal system as well as within the identifiable groups to which they belong.” (Snowden, 165) The experience you receive as a race and how you perceive your race is apart of mental illness. Many African American people look down upon their race due to socioeconomic hierarchy that society has given people. African American’s are at high risk to developing mental illness. Healthcare providers have misdiagnosed many African Americans due to lack of knowledge. “African Americans in ...
Katz, Phyllis A. and Dalmas A. Taylor, eds. Eliminating Racism. New York: Plenum Press, 1988.
We get to see sexism and harassment in his full dangerous potential behind the eyes of the author. We realize how severe this issue is and how it affects a woman mentally. I certainly made the right choice of picking this book for this semester’s circle. I truly enjoyed every single page as it broadened my understanding towards feminism. I don’t regret this one
Tu Huynh English 100 Professor Thill Research essay Women’s Anger about Racism Racism is a situation that every now and then, America has to face. America has a long history of racism based on its diversity. Racism among women in America does not being seen much in the media, however, it happens every day. Sexual assault is another issue that effect on many Americans, not just women, but also men and others in the LGBT communities as well.
The counseling session began with the introductions where I introduced myself as the counselor and later introduced my client. This stage is important in any counseling session since it is the time of exploration and focusing according to Gerard Egan as quoted by Wright (1998) in his essay on couselling skills. It is in this session that I was able to establish rapport and trust with my client in order to come up with a working and fruitful relationship with him. During this stage I made use of skills like questioning, where I would pose a question directly to my client, sometimes I would choose to just listen to what the client wanted to speak out while in some instances I would be forced to paraphrase the question if I felt the client did not understand the question I had asked previously. There were also other times when I would reflect through silence. During such a period, I got time to study the client and the information he had given. This being a difficult area, since some clients may not be able to volunteer information to you as the counselor, I decided to assure the client of confidentiality of any information he was willing to share with me with a few exceptions which I also told him about. Being open to him about the only times the information may not be confidential was part of my building rapport and establishing trust with him. I therefore, decided to ask the client what information he wanted to share with me and lucky enough he was ready to speak to me about different issues that he was going through.
Among the many subjects covered in this book are the three classes of oppression: gender, race and class in addition to the ways in which they intersect. As well as the importance of the movement being all-inclusive, advocating the idea that feminism is in fact for everybody. The author also touches upon education, parenting and violence. She begins her book with her key argument, stating that feminist theory and the movement are mainly led by high class white women who disregarded the circumstances of underprivileged non-white women.
In this part of the assignment, I will be reviewing the strengths and weaknesses that were shown when I was using counselling skills on my client. I believe that there were more strengths when I was showing counselling skills compared to the weaknesses that there were.