Title: Justice and Advocacy: Antiracist Counseling in Schools and Communities

Authors: Dana Griffin, PhD; Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, PhD; Joshua Schuschke, PhD; and Malik Henfield, PhD

Description: Antiracist Counseling in Schools and Communities (ACA, 2022) identifies pathways for school and clinical mental health counselors to develop and sustain an antiracist counseling profession. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale and specific strategies to sustain antiracism efforts, and respond to the costs of being an antiracist practitioner.

Title: Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Through Relational-Cultural Theory

Authors: Thelma Duffey, PhD and Shane Haberstroh, EdD

Description: Counselors continue to have much work to do in examining their worldviews, points of privilege, awareness of their social position, and how they share power in their work with clients (Duffey & Haberstroh, 2022). Duffey and Haberstroh pointed out a study that indicated that among 2,112 clients of color, 81% reported experiencing at least one microaggression from their counselor and that such experiences make the voices and truths of clients of color become marginalized and unheard. As indicated by Duffey and Haberstroh, the implication is that counselors need to work from a theoretical framework that distinctly addresses how power, culture, and relationship flow in the counseling process while offering counselors and clients a framework to understand and create mutually supportive, authentic, and growth-promoting relationships. In this vein, Relational-cultural theory (RCT) provides a conceptually roadmap and counseling philosophy that can help counselors evaluate the centrality of relationships, culture, social justice, and power. This Continuing Professional Development resource is based on Chapter 2 from the ACA book (2022) Counseling and Psychotherapy: Theories and Interventions (7th ed.).

Title: Students of Color: Using an Antiracism Ecological Framework for College and Career Readiness

Authors: Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, PhD; Erik M. Hines, PhD; Paul C. Harris, PhD; and Renae D. Mayes, PhD

Description: Students of Color: Using an Antriacism Ecological Framework for College and Career Readiness (Hines, Harris, Mayes, & Owen, 2022) is based on chapter five of the book, “Antiracist Counseling in Schools and Communities” by Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy (2022). This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to understand the literature pertaining to college and career readiness, explain the role of school counselors in college and career readiness, and discuss an antiracist ecological framework to guide school counselors’ college and career readiness practices.