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

Please complete the following PRIOR to our class session on October 15 (Tuesday - Conversion Day):

1. Readings/Video

READ the assigned articles and take notes

Anderson & Stevenson

Sue et al.

VIEW the video: 'Weaponizing Whiteness'

Supplemental/Optional Reading: Malott & Schaefle

2. Blackboard Journal #5

Go to Blackboard to the Journal link and post to the 'Responding to Discriminatory Racial Encounters' journal.

3. Prepare for Quiz (RAT#6)

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

4. Submit Cultural Immersion Experience Paper on Blackboard by Saturday, October 26

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.

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.