Queering Counselor Education: Situational Analysis of LGBTQ+ Competent Faculty

Minoritized Professionals' Experiences in Counselor Education: A Review of Research

“…Increased understanding of sources of historical oppression and their impacts on diverse populations will shed light on internalized biases, assumptions, and stereotypes. Completing learning activities such as The Racial Healing Handbook (Singh, 2019); attending conferences or summits hosted by the Association for Sexual, Affectional, Intersex, and Gender Expansive Identities (formerly the Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling) and by the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (Gess & Horn, 2018); or engaging in antibias training may be a first step in increasing awareness. Furthermore, increasing awareness of microaggressions and leveraging privilege to intervene when microaggressions occur will support this aim (see Sue et al, 2019).…”

“…Professionals can leverage this awareness across counselor education roles. Some examples include application of an intersectionality framework for pedagogy and practice (Chan et al, 2018), cross‐racial mentoring (Brown & Grothaus, 2019), and equitable distribution of labor to combat tokenism and invisible labor (Gess & Horn, 2018). Future research may be directed at uncovering a process of reflexivity (i.e., the process of examining one's identities as mentioned above) that stakeholders can carry out systematically.…”

“…Faculty members, ideally those with privileged identities, can systematically nominate and encourage minoritized professionals to apply for leadership positions and then support their efforts by amplifying their ideas, advocating for equitable distribution of labor, and interceding when discriminatory actions take place within the organization. Because hierarchical structures can give way for abuse of power (Gess & Horn, 2018), professional organization leaders may benefit from careful exploration regarding power dynamics and valuing within organizational practices. Future research may examine the impact of intentional leadership development programming on professional trajectory and voice of diverse professionals across time and place.…”

Strategies for Schools to Prevent Psychosocial Stress, Stigma, and Suicidality Risks among LGBTQ+ Students

“…Among students who report such incidents, 62% said that school staff neither responded appropriately nor took tangible measures [14]. This can be attributed to school counselors lacking appropriate resources and training to address LGBTQ+ students' concerns [65]. When school personnel become more confident in intervening in incidents that involve gender and sexuality stigma, students attain improved outcomes [66,67].…”

Counselor Education and Supervision: 2018 Annual Review

“…Diversity and inclusion research about counselor educators included quantitative investigation of mothers’ occupational satisfaction (Neale‐McFall, Eckart, Hermann, Haskins, & Ziomek‐Daigle, 2018). Qualitative inquiries included experiences of “minoritized” (Pérez & Carney, 2018, p. 162) faculty members with institutional oppression and campus interviews (Cartwright, Avent‐Harris, Munsey, & Lloyd‐Hazlett, 2018), as well as analyses of African American male counselors’ social justice efforts (Dollarhide et al, 2018) and actions of LGBTQ+ competent faculty members (Gess & Doughty Horn, 2018).…”