ABSTRACT
This final chapter explores HHSWT as a holistic model for school counseling, containing a variety of elements. The culmination of the HHSWT model offers school counselors an approach to promote Black and Brown youth’s voice and counter age-old oppressive educational practices. Analysis of the pilot study’s findings set the groundwork for the further examination of what are now the core constructions of the HHSWT model. Inside of studios, and during HHSWT work, students collaborate on making emotionally themed mixtapes, often as a form of action research. As a hip-hop cultural process, hip-hop cyphers were originally theorized as group environments that contained the dynamics and therapeutic factors necessary for healing.
