Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors and Educators

by Joseph G. Ponterotto, Paul B. Pedersen

As the global community becomes more interdependent, the need for a reduction in negative racial prejudice increases. Counsellors and educators can play a vital role in this process, and this comprehensive book presents a model and mechanism which will help accomplish such a goal.

The authors provide an excellent, pragmatic resource for understanding the nature of prejudice and directions for intervention that include a series of developmentally-sequenced exercises and activities. The book draws on theory and research - influential in the field of counsellor education - from counselling, psychology, education and sociology.

Genres: Education, Social Justice

200 pages, Hardcover

First published July 22, 1993

Reviews

[Taylor]

I do not recommend this book to anyone looking to learn about preventing prejudice. The ideas in this book were offensive and went against the work and meaning of therapist!

[Elyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am a fieldwork supervisor for graduate students and asked what book they were reading in their Gender & Ethnicity class and they named this one. After having taken Gender and Ethnicity in graduate school more than 10 years ago, I was excited to re-visit this material.

I wish that this book had existed when I was a student. It was very thorough and direct in outlining multicultural counseling issues. I especially liked the overviews of various developmental models for racial/ethnic identity. The book also included information about unintentional racism in the counseling process between white counselors and clients of color.

Overall, the tone of the book is action-oriented as indicated by its title, Preventing Prejudice. It does provide specific guidelines for both recognizing prejudice and preventing it. This quality took the book a step further than my graduate school texts.

The book had an extensive list of other resources that I plan to review to maintain my awareness and actions as a counseling professional working with a multi-cultural staff and client population.