After completing your Reading for this week please respond to the following questions:
Rasheed an African- American professional counselor was employed at a community mental health center. A local physician referred Steve a 30- year- old Caucasian graduate student because of recurrent depressive symptoms.
After Rasheed went over the informed consent forms Steve said somewhat aggressively I need to tell you something about myself. I’m what you would probably consider Texan White Trash. I was raised in a trailer park in West Texas. My parents hated Black people and blamed everything that went wrong in their lives on niggers. I grew to hate my parents. When I was 9 I was sexually abused by my uncle and after that I decided I would do everything and anything I could to get away from my family. That’s why I moved here 12 years ago and I haven’t had much contact with them since.
Rasheed nodded. Steve took a breath and continued in a more subdued tone. But my dad has cancer and my sister keeps calling me saying that he wants to see me and that I’ve got to come back home to visit. I’m struggling to face the fact that I should go back and say good- bye to my father before he dies. And the weird thing about this is that now I’ve come to see you and you seem fine and all that but your job is to help me go back and be with my father who spent his life hating Blacks. Are you okay with that?