A phenomenological examination of racial microaggressions in intraracial therapeutic counseling relationships
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TitleA phenomenological examination of racial microaggressions in intraracial therapeutic counseling relationships
Date Created2016
Other Date2016-05 (degree)
Extent1 online resource (x, 291 p. : ill.)
DescriptionPublic service organizations involved in addiction and/or mental health counseling are becoming more racially and culturally diverse with a growing number of Black individuals serving as frontline workers within these types of organizations. Demographic changes coupled with an ever-increasing cultural diversification within American society has resulted in the Black frontline worker and the client of color engaging in therapeutic dialogues that involve different cultural backgrounds, beliefs, values, practices, behaviors, and/or languages. These types of therapeutic dialogues are persistent features of any competent frontline worker’s approach to honing his or her craft. Therefore, in a society that is rapidly becoming more racially and culturally diverse, combined with the complexities of contemporary racism, racial prejudice, and/or cultural miscommunication, it is extremely important that Black frontline workers begin to understand how their perception of racial microaggressions and how they racially self-identify may influence their decision-making process during the intraracial therapeutic counseling relationship. In addition, public service organizations will also need to embrace these demographic realities by becoming more culturally competent and understand that their employees, especially their employees of color (e.g., Black frontline workers) are part and parcel of a culturally variegated society. As such, the effectiveness of delivery and the quality of service is contingent upon these organizations not only understanding the population that they service but also understanding the population that is doing the servicing. Quantitative results provide some preliminary evidence that the perception of racial microaggressions and the racial self-identification of Black frontline workers, to some extent, play a role in the intraracial therapeutic counseling relationship. Qualitative findings indicate that although racial microaggresions impact the experiential realities of Black frontline workers, those experiences are not brought into the intraracial therapeutic counseling relationship. Findings from this research illuminates its intrinsic value by adding to the cultural competency and social equity discourse in public administration and the cultural competency discourse in the field of addiction counseling education.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Noteby Audrey Redding-Raines
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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