Description

This article synthesizes the literature relevant to coping with racism to provide a 4-stage model for addressing clients' discriminatory experiences. Major suggestions drawn from the literature include applying frameworks with a contextuallens, using broaching and eliciting skills to promote client exploration of racism and the effects of racism on persons of color, enhancing client racial and ethnic identities, and tailoring interventions to the clients' culture and preferred coping strategies

Objectives:

1. Synthesize professional literature relevant to coping with racism
2. Explore a four-stage model for addressing clients' discriminatory experiences

Author(s):

• Krista M. Malott, PhD
• Scott Schaefle, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver

Category: JCD Article