ABSTRACT
The vignettes demonstrate the impact that everyday racism can have on African American clients in the counseling population. The real-life scenarios and compatible audio/visual links allow participants to simulate the experiential reality of counseling individuals with racial battle fatigue and consider appropriate assessment and intervention strategies that are critical to multicultural counseling. The activity stimulates critical thinking from the perspective of a counselor, a supervisor, and a counselor educator. This makes the experiential exercises useful for master’s-level clinical mental health counseling students and doctoral-level counselor education students. The materials needed include an Internet connected device to view video links and a projector to display video clip(s) to a large group, if desired. Participants should have paper and pens available to record notes and responses from small group or large group discussion. The videos that accompany the vignettes depict current events.
