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Article: Overcoming biases to effectively serve African American College students: a call to the profession.(counselor-client relations)
- Article from:
- College Student Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
- Author:
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This article reexamines the help-seeking behavior of African American college students with a focus on possible counselor biases as well as biases in the settings in which counselors work. These issues are discussed as possible contributing factors to the underutilization of counseling by African American college students. Strategies to overcoming these biases are discussed as well as implications for the counseling profession.
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