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SPCL 7922 Multicultural Counseling and Consultation (Elizalde-Utnick): Module 6: Racial Trauma-Informed Interventions

Fall 2024

TASK LIST TO PREPARE FOR CLASS SESSION

Please complete the following by Friday, October 24:

1. Readings/Video

READ the assigned articles and take notes

Anderson & Stevenson

Sue et al.

VIEW the video: 'Weaponizing Whiteness;' Lecture Video

Supplemental/Optional Reading: Malott & Schaefle

2. Brightspace Journal

Go to Brightspace and complete the 'Responding to Discriminatory Racial Encounters' journal.

3. Take the Brightspace Quiz (RAT#6)

The 5-question multiple-choice quiz will be on the assigned readings and videos. 

4. Submit Cultural Immersion Experience Paper on Blackboard by Saturday, October 25

JOURNAL REFLECTION

Responding to Discriminatory Racial Encounters

Part 1:

  • Think of a time when you got caught in a racial moment at work or socially, that left you feeling very stressed, where it was difficult to respond, speak or access your voice.
  • Please write about one of these experiences.
  • How stressful was the incident from a scale of 1-10?
  • Describe the moment in detail.

Part 2:

  • Take your discriminatory racial encounter and imagine a redo.
  • What would you have liked to have happened?
  • Describe this imagined redo.

SUMMARY

In this session we will discuss racial trauma and its cumulative effects. Students will engage in individual and collective racial healing activities, including microinterventions and a mindfulness approach that incorporates racial literacy. Students will also discuss "the talk" and racial socialization practices in families of color.

SESSION SLIDES

VIDEO ON HOW WHITENESS IS WEAPONIZED (9:28)

VIDEO: Why Black Girls are Targeted for Punishment at School -- And How to Change That (12:36)