Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 1999

Source Publication

Journal of Counseling & Development

Abstract

Racial identity has been theorized to significantly affect cross-racial counseling relationships (Helms, 1984, 1995). This study examined the direct impact of White racial identity of 124 counselor trainees on working alliance formation in a same-racial and cross-racial vicarious counseling analogue. Regardless of the race of the client, disintegration and reintegration attitudes negatively affected working alliance ratings, and pseudoindependent and autonomy attitudes positively affected working alliance ratings. Implications for counseling, supervision, training, and research are discussed.

Comments

Published version.

Journal of Counseling & Development, Volume 77, No. 3 (Summer 1999).

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Reprinted from Journal of Counseling & Development, Volume 77(3), Summer 1999, 324-329. ©1999 The American Counseling Association. Reprinted with permission. No further reproduction authorized without written permission from the American Counseling Association.