ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the overall outcomes of the research and makes recommendations for improving the skills and knowledge of counsellors to work with Black client groups. The specific heightened emotional reactions from the individual item analyses of the Vignette Rating Scale results indicated that counsellors were showing different emotional responses to the video vignette case study ‘clients’ based on the client’s ethnicity and perceived cultural difference. In the main, counsellors showed more of a heightened emotional response in the order of the South Asian ‘client’, the white ‘client’ and least emotional response towards the African-Caribbean ‘client’. Racial groups are assigned behaviours and characteristics which are seen to determine their behaviour, and the group’s social characteristics are seen as being fixed and unalterable. The pan-national approach sees race as determining culture. This approach has been developed by Black people to explain and understand their sociopolitical position relative to white people.
