Table of Contents
1 Cover
2 Preface What Is New to the Second Edition?
3 SECTION ONE: Psychological Manifestation and Dynamics of Microaggressions CHAPTER ONE: Microaggressions as Toxic Rain: Here, There, and Everywhere! “Still I Rise” What Are Microaggressions? Racial Microaggressions Gender Microaggressions Sexual‐Orientation Microaggressions Misunderstanding Microaggressions Microaggressions, Marginality, and Harmful Impact CHAPTER TWO: Taxonomy of Microaggressions Conscious and Deliberate Bigotry versus Unconscious and Unintentional Bias Environmental Macroaggressions Forms of Microaggressions Microinsults and Microinvalidations: Common Themes CHAPTER THREE: The Psychological Dilemmas and Dynamics of Microaggressions Clash of Racial Realities: “You Are Just Being Hypersensitive and Misreading the Situation!” Invisibility of Unintentional Biases: “I'm Not a Racist!” Perceived Minimal Harm of Microaggressions: “Don't Make a Mountain Out of a Molehill!” The Catch‐22 of Responding to Microaggressions: “You're Damned if You Do and Damned if You Don't!”
4 SECTION TWO: Microaggressive Impact on Targets and Perpetrators CHAPTER FOUR: The Microaggression Process Model: The Internal Struggle of Targets Tracing the Impact of Microaggressions The Microaggression Process Model: Recap CHAPTER FIVE: Microaggressive Stress: Impact on Physical and Psychological Well‐Being Biological Stressors: A Roadmap to Understanding Microaggressive Harm Psychological and Social Stressors The Harmful Effects of Microaggressive Stress Strength through Adversity CHAPTER SIX: Microaggressive Perpetrators: Who, What, When, How, and Why? Who Are Microaggressive Perpetrators? How and Why Do Individuals Perpetrate Microaggressions? What Makes It So Difficult For Perpetrators To Recognize Their Privilege? What Are the Costs of Microaggressions to Perpetrators?
5 SECTION THREE: Interrogating Microaggressions: On Research, Teaching, and Counseling CHAPTER SEVEN: Researching Microaggressions: Show Me the Evidence! In Their Own Words: Qualitative Investigation of Microaggressions Do Findings Generalize? Quantitative Investigation of Microaggressions Summary CHAPTER EIGHT: Teaching about Microaggressions Faculty Narratives: Facing Challenges in the Classroom Encountering Microaggressions in the Classroom Navigating Microaggressions: What Can Educators Do? Microaggressions Pedagogy: How to Teach about Microaggressions CHAPTER NINE: Microaggressions in Counseling and Psychotherapy Underutilization of Mental Health Services Premature Termination and Quality of Mental Health Care Multicultural Counseling Competence Manifestations of Racial Microaggressions in Counseling and Psychotherapy Microaggressions Influence Counseling Process and Outcomes
6 SECTION FOUR: Disarming Microaggressions and Macroaggressions CHAPTER TEN: Microintervention Strategies for Disarming Microaggressions and Macroaggressions Microaggressions and Macroaggressions The Need to Take Action: Targets, Allies, and Bystanders Responding to Microaggressions and Macroaggressions Microinterventions Microinterventions and Macroaggressions Context Matters
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