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This Is How We Do It: Black Counselor Educators Preparing Counselors-in-Training to Broach Race

Abstract

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Counselor educators are responsible for training counselors-in-training (CITs), equipping them with knowledge and skills to best serve racially diverse clients (CACREP, 2015). CITs may demonstrate multicultural competence by broaching race, or inviting clients to consider the extent to which race contributes to one's presenting problem (Day-Vines et al., 2017). Practicum and Internship experiences offer counselor educators the opportunity to prepare CITs to broach race through group supervision. Thus, this interpretative phenomenological analysis aimed to explore experiences of Black counselor educators in CACREP-accredited counseling programs, as their voices have historically been overlooked in scholarship (Haskins and Singh, 2015). Five GETs were revealed including: (a) Degree of Multiculturalism in Counseling Program, (b) Regular Conversations of Race, (c) Defining Broaching, (d) Centering Clients' Culture, and (e) Feeling Tension with Students as well as three divergent experiences. Overall, these findings highlight the ways in which Black counselor educators navigate the task of supporting CITs with the broaching intervention. This study illuminates what counselor education programs, counselor educators, and CACREP can do to improve what is currently being done about broaching preparation in counselor education.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Doctor of Philosophy
Level thesis:degree_level
doctoral
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Counselor Education
Department dc:contributor.department
Education, Community College
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2024

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Loury, Jacoby Alexander
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Grimes, Tameka O.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Levy, Ian
  • Ellington, Breanna Lea
  • Welfare, Laura Everhart
  • Doolittle, Peter E.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:40628
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/119148

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2026-07-22
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citation

Loury, Jacoby Alexander. This Is How We Do It: Black Counselor Educators Preparing Counselors-in-Training to Broach Race. doctoral thesis, Virginia Tech, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/119148