This document summarizes a presentation about racial microaggressions and their implications for clinical practice. It discusses how microaggressions, which can be unconscious slights or insults based on race, negatively impact people of color and represent barriers to effective counseling. The presentation explores how microaggressions manifest in therapy and provides recommendations for clinicians, including improving education and training around issues of race and actively working to reduce microaggressions in their practice.

1. RACIAL MICROAGGRESSIONS IN EVERYDAY LIFE
IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
April Martin Chartrand, Presenter
COUN 702[02] Dr. Sandra Fitzgerald | San Francisco State University
November 3, 2014
Sue, D., Capodilupo, C., Torino, G., Bucceri, J., Holder, A., Nadal, K., & Esquilin, M. (2007)

2. PUBLIC EXPOSURE
 Why this article?
 2012, a year of Sue’s theory!
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3. WHAT DOES RACE/ETHNICITY HAVE TO DO
WITH MICROAGGRESSION - MIDLIFE 34-60 YRS
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Erick Erickson (1902-1994)
Stages of Psychosocial Development
 Developmental task
 Psychosocial crisis
 Central Process
 Prime adaptive ego quality
 Core Pathology
 Applied Topic
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4. MANIFESTING & DECONSTRUCTING
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 Microaggression
 Microassaults
 Microinsult
 Microinvalidations
 Ascription of Intelligence

5. INVISIBILITY & DYNAMICS OF
RACIAL MICROAGGRESSIONS
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Derald Wing Sue, [an Asian
American] traveled with an African
American colleague on a “hopper”
plane flying to NYC-Boston.

6. MICROAGGRESSION DILEMMAS
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 Dilemma 1: Clash of racial realities
 Dilemma 2: Invisibility of unintentional expressions of bias
 Dilemma 3: Perceived minimal harm of racial microaggressions
 Dilemma 4: Catch-22 of responding
to microaggressions

7. IMPLICATIONS FOR COUNSELING PRACTICE
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 Racial Microaggressions as a barrier to clinical practice
 Manifestation of racial microaggressions in counseling/therapy
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8. COUNSELING IMPLICATIONS &
CONCLUSION
 Education & training
 Research
 Final note
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9. WHAT KIND OF ASIAN ARE YOU?
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10. MICROAGGRESSION ENGAGEMENT QUESTIONS
1. Why is it difficult to challenge oppression in your clinical
practice personal lives, and community?
2. What steps are you taking to actively disrupt the cycle of
oppression to reduce micro aggression in your clinical work
and in your life?
3. Do you actively develop friendships with people who don’t
share your social identities to unearth stereotypes and to
become aware of unconscious prejudice?
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11. REFERENCES
 Sue, D. (2010a). Microaggressions in everyday life: Race, gender, and
sexual orientation. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
 Sue, D. W. & Rivera, D. (2010b). Microaggressions in Everyday Life: A
new view on racism, sexism, and heterosexism. Retrieved from
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/microaggressions-in-
everyday-life/201011/microaggressions-more-just-race
 Sue, D., Capodilupo, C., Torino, G., Bucceri, J., Holder, A., Nadal, K., &
Esquilin, M. (2007). Racial Microaggressions In Everyday Life:
Implications For Clinical Practice. American Psychologist, 62(4), 271-
286.
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