DVD: All 7 Training Videos by Derald Wing Sue

(A conversation with Drs. Mark Kinselica and Derald Wing Sue - Moderator: Madonna Constantine)

Emotional roadblocks often arise when issues of race, culture, ethnicity are met by helping professionals. Drs. Kinselica and Sue describe their racial/cultural awakening as a White person and a Person of Color and share personal experiences with racism, bigotry and bias. Dr. Kinselica courageously describes his defensive reactions to reading the text as a doctoral student, his anger at Sue for attacking the mental health professions as being harmful to marginalized groups, and his final painful realization that he had inherited racist attitudes and beliefs. Dr. Sue describes early experiences of prejudice and discrimination in childhood, lessons and insights learned as a result of being different in a monocultural society, and the constant feeling that current psychology did not reflect his experiential reality which led to the writing of his best-selling book.

Specific suggestions are given about what students must do to overcome their own racist cultural conditioning in order to be a culturally competent citizen and helping professional.

(approx 60 min) Accompanies Chapter 2: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition

What is cultural competence? What is multicultural counseling and therapy? Is there any difference between counseling a White client as opposed to a Black one? What do we mean by multiculturalism? Does it include gender, sexual orientation, class, religion and other sociodemographic groups? This DVD answers these questions and more--students will learn key basics for practice and the deeper meanings of identity development.

(approx 60 min.) Accompanies Chapter 2: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition

Is it possible for anyone to be born and raised in the United States without inheriting the racial biases of the society? How is it possible for good, moral and decent human beings to act in ways that oppress others? Do I oppress?

Derald Wing Sue presents his most recent research on racial microaggressions; brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults to the target person or group. While the lecture concentrates on racial microaggressions, Sue links the phenomenon to gender and sexual orientation microaggressions as well. Therapists who are unaware of their biases and prejudices may unintentionally engage in microaggressions that create impasses for clients of color.

(approx. 60 min.) Accompanies Chapter 5: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition

Why do people of color, Gays/Lesbians, and other marginalized groups often assert that counseling and psychotherapy are unhelpful? And why do they underutilize traditional mental health services and prematurely terminate after only one contact with a helping professional? Derald Wing Sue takes viewers on a journey to explore the culture-bound, class-bound and linguistic biases of traditional forms of counseling and psychotherapy.

(approx 60 min.) Accompanies Chapter 6: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition

Isn't good counseling, good counseling? Do I need to change my helping style when working with clients of color? In this engrossing presentation filled with case examples, Derald Wing Sue illustrates how a Western European approach to counseling may lead to mistaken assessment, diagnosis and treatment of culturally diverse clients

(approx. 60 min.) Accompanies Chapter 7: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition

Sue uses his "Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model" as a conceptual framework to aid therapists in understanding their culturally diverse clients' attitudes and behaviors. The model defines five stages of development that oppressed people experience as they struggle to understand themselves in terms of their own culture, the dominant culture, and the oppressive relationship between the two cultures. Implications for counseling culturally diverse clients are given for each level of identity.

(approx. 60 min.) Accompanies Chapter 10: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition

What does it mean to be White? Aren't we all just human beings? As a White person, why do I feel so uncomfortable and conflicted about racial issues? Is there really something called "White Privilege"? Derald Wing Sue describes how White racial identity awareness is correlated with lower levels of racism and higher levels of multicultural competence. The most desirable outcome is one in which the White person not only accepts his or her Whiteness but also defines it in a nondefensive and nonracist manner.

(approx. 60 min.) Accompanies Chapter 11: Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 5th edition