Multiracial Microaggressions: Implications for Social Work Education and Practice

Abstract

ABSTRACTRacism scholars have made intentional efforts to produce research for the development of educational strategies to address racial microaggressions. Similarly, the counseling profession has made a conscious effort to create multicultural guidelines and standards that can assist in the prevention of racial discrimination in therapeutic practice. However, no educational strategies or counseling standards have been created to address monoracism in social work education or practice settings. The authors propose education and practice recommendations to advance social workers multicultural training. To that end, this article focuses on (1) presenting the multi-faceted array of racial microaggressions faced by Multiracial populations, (2) documenting racial microaggressions faced by Multiracial students in social work education and practice settings, and (3) proposing considerations for the inclusion of Multiracial populations in social work education and practice efforts.