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Teaching and Supervision in Counseling

Author ORCID Identifier

Casey Barrio Minton - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1257-7937

Author Biographies

Haley Ault is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology and Counseling Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Henrietta Gantt, is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Psychology and Counseling Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Casey Barrio Minton, Ph.D., is a professor in the Educational Psychology and Counseling Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7290/tsc05dxpf

Abstract

Professional counselors must act as anti-racist social justice advocates throughout the counseling relationship, including assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. Due to internalized racism and inappropriate instruments, assessment and diagnosis are two critical areas where marginalized populations have historically experienced misdiagnosis and pathologizing impacting overall client care and wellbeing. Inappropriate instruments, inadequate training, and counselor bias have profound impacts on access to treatment and resources for individuals holding marginalized racial identities. Although the call for anti-racist counseling is clear, the profession is still unclear on how to teach these concepts to counselor trainees. Counselor educators must be intentional about incorporating anti-racist concepts into all counseling courses including assessment and diagnosis. Situated by the historical context of racism within helping professions, we aim to provide practical teaching implications for infusing anti-racist content into assessment and diagnosis courses in counselor education.

Public Significance Statement

This conceptual article advances counselor education by introducing practical teaching implications for infusing anti-racist content into assessment and diagnosis courses. The need for this article is situated by both documented racism throughout assessment and diagnostic practice and more recent calls for anti-racist practices through counselor education.

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