Antiracist pedagogy in counselor education and supervision

Antiracist pedagogy in counselor education and supervisionIn this issue, we focus on the importance of and need for antiracist practices and pedagogy in counselor training.Denial and minimization of racism occurs within our profession, and others, and may influence our collective ability to engage in antiracist practices (Yi et al., 2022).To address issues of bias and potential perpetuation of prejudice in training, an increasing focus on antiracist perspectives and practices has been evident in counseling as well as broader healthcare scholarship over the last decade.To address antiracist practices and their role in counselor training and supervision, authors were solicited for this special issue.In total, we will be publishing nine articles that were accepted over two issues.Authors contributing to this issue, and subsequent issues beyond this issue, focus on how counselor educators and supervisors might bring advocacy and social justice into training in ways that promote systemic change.We hope this issue helps foster insight while serving as a call to action for all professional counselors.Articles in this issue address systemic racism within counselor education, cultural empathy, use of self as an instrument, the involvement of Black students in our professions' research, and potential bias in our supervision models.These topics provide a push to motivate all of us, regardless of our identities, to see antiracism as our responsibility and to embrace the need for collective action.Providing tools and resources for antiracist pedagogy is important to transformational practice (Browne et al., 2021; Najdowski et al., 2021).Clearly, antiracism is an important stepping-stone in addressing larger systemic issues within our profession, culture, and ourselves.Exploring antiracism, intersectionality, and inclusivity in counselor training is essential to building a responsive workforce that can contribute to improving equity in healthcare.As a profession, we must self-evaluate and determine how systems of training and supervision influence access to professional training.By reflecting on our own educational system, we can better understand how we have influenced and can influence counselor awareness related to inequities present in mental healthcare delivery (i.e., medically underserved groups).There are a number of barriers to affecting one's ability to access services, including workforce shortages, placement of providers in underserved areas, and research on effective interventions with diverse groups (Mongelli et al., 2020).Addressing these barriers will require aware, responsive, culturally humble counselors with a strong professional identity and ability to work with other healthcare professionals to serve our clients in a holistic way.We hope this issue and subsequent special issues in this journal will propel the conversation around who we have been as a profession (the good and the bad) and how we can more mindfully shape our professional future to ensure we are inclusive, representative, and accessible

Counselor education · Higher education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Medicine · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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