Multicultural Counseling

Privilege

Main Privileges
1. White
2. Gender
3. Religion
4. Heterosexual
5. Able
6. Social
7. If a student doesn't have privilege, then they could be oppressed and that could be effecting school or some areas in their life that pour over into school.

Racial Macroaggressions

Microinsults
Microassaults
Microinvalidation

Microinsults

Behavioral/Verbal remarks or comments that convey rudeness insensitivity and demean a person's racial heritage or identity.
1. Overt
2. Unconscious
Example: "Asians must be good at math" " You speak English well

Microassaults

Explicit racial derogation characterized by a violent or nonverbal attack meant to hurt the intended victim through:
Name calling
Avoidance behavior
Purposeful discriminatory actions
1. Overt
2. Conscious
Ex: The "N" word

Microinvalidation

Verbal comments or behavior that excludes, negate or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person of color.
1. Covert
2. Often unconscious
Example: Statement that imply race plays a role in success.

Environmental Microagressions

Marcro-Level:
racial assaults, insults, and invalidation which are manifested on systemic and environmental levels.

Racial Identity

Person of color:
Conformity (PreEnounter)
Dissonance (Encounter)
Resistance & Immersion (Immersion-Emersion)
Introspection (Internalization)
Synergistic Articulation & Awareness (Internalization-Commitment)
White:
Contact
Disintegration
Reintegration
Psue

White Fragility

White people feeling uncomfortable about talk about race

Cultural humility

Culturally competent

Cultural competence

ability of a counselor to recognize, acknowledge and respond sensitively and appropriately to clients in their cultural contexts

Cultural identity

The embodiment of the cultural norms, beliefs, values and world view. Sense of belonging.

Racial Battle Fatigue

Regular basis of social and psychological stress
Theoretical framework for examining the social and psychological stress responses of
(a) frustration
(b) anger
(c) exhaustion
(d) physical avoidance
(e) psychological withdrawl

Race

White/Negro/Mangoloid

Ethnicity

Strictly your culture

Accommodation

The modification of internal cognition to fit a changing reality

Acculturation

Dual identity

Assimilation

Forgetting about your culture

Institutional Racism

Forms of racism which are embedded to the structure of political and social institutions