Janee Steele

• Walden University

In an effort to move beyond applied psychology’s culturally encapsulated Eurocentric worldview, several guidelines on how to responsively work across cultures have recently been set forth by the profession (e.g., American Psychological Association, 2017; Ridley et al., 2021; Sue et al., 2022). However, many of these guidelines focus on the acquisit...

This article describes radical Black behaviorism and how it may be utilized during counseling to address the effects of racial microaggressions among African American clients. A case illustration is provided, and implications for broader societal change are discussed.

Internalized racism is a significant source of psychological distress and low self-esteem among African Americans. Yet many counselors are challenged in their ability to address race and internalized racism in their work with clients, as there are few theoretically based approaches within the counseling literature to assist counselors with addressi...

In this article, the authors draw from multicultural orientation, broaching, and antibias microintervention frameworks to describe an integrated approach to addressing microaggressions during addiction treatment groups. A case study is provided to illustrate the approach and implementation considerations are outlined.

This article presents a CBT approach to internalized racial oppression among African American clients. Cognitive conceptualization and treatment planning using CBT are illustrated through a case study, followed by a discussion on the generalizability of a proposed cognitive model of internalized racism to other marginalized populations. The article...

Jamaican immigrant students are highly represented in U.S. public schools, primarily in regions concentrated throughout the east coast. Many of these students and their families have personal and social concerns that have implications for school counselors. In particular, scholars suggest that among this population, harsh methods of child disciplin...

This study explored master's-level counseling students' (N = 804) perceptions of training in the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs () Research and Program Evaluation standard, and their attitudes toward quantitative research. Training perceptions and quantitative research attitudes were low to moderate, with n...

This study explored perceptions of social justice advocacy among liberal, moderate, and conservative members (N = 214) of the American Counseling Association (ACA). Results showed that conservative participants had somewhat less favorable perceptions of social justice advocacy, but generally did not differ statistically from liberal and moderate pa...

There are few pedagogical resources that describe how counselor educators can prepare counseling students to advocate for social justice. This article highlights a constructivist approach to social justice advocacy training called the Liberation Model. The principles of the Liberation Model are discussed, and recommendations for implementing the mo...