Dr. Dana Stone joins us to unpack our guest Carol's experience with a therapist who chose a stance of defensiveness following a rather shocking microaggression. How can we become not just better clinicians, but better human beings as well? Any why might some therapeutic ruptures ultimately serve to benefit the client?

Show Notes:

• Cultural Humility: Measuring Openness to Culturally Diverse Clients

• The Session Rating Scale: Preliminary Psychometric Properties of a "Working" Alliance Measure

• The working alliance in treatment of military adolescents.

• What is the essential quality of effective feedback? New research points the way

• The Secret of Supershrinks: Pathways to Clinical Excellence

• Finding Your Voice as a Beginning Marriage and Family Therapist

• Black people aren't making things up: The science behind 'racial battle fatigue'

• Privilege: A Reader

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

• Racial microaggressions in every day life: implications for clinical practice.

• Broaching the Subjects of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture During the Counseling Process

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

• So You Want to Talk About Race