Develop an Intervention to Defuse Prejudice and Racial Tension
Reference
Hays, P.A. (2001). Addressing cultural complexities in practice: A framework for clinicians and counselors.
Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association.
Warm-Up Activity 4.4: Watch videos
Watch these videos, located under your weekly resources, to further explore racism and racial tension in
schools:
Films Media Group. (2001) Real Life Teens: Racial Tension on Campus.
Films Media Group. (1999). Segment 1: Racism in Schools. Color-Blind: Fighting Racism in Schools.
Assignment
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For this task you will reflect on what you learned about your own feelings toward prejudice, and from your
readings in the text, and the films you viewed. Then, you will design an educational intervention to defuse
prejudice in your local high school.
The intervention could be delivered at a school assembly or as a unit in a high school advisory program. Notice
the particular racial and ethnic tensions that exist in the school you select, and then choose the appropriate
material.
Prepare a package of material that you would give to the school counselors for their implementation of the
intervention. Your package should include:
A transcript for a 10-minute lecture
A short play or interactive game that would engage the students to consider the impact of prejudice. (You may
adapt an already existing play or game to fit your particular environment, or you may create your own.)
An annotated list of at least five resources that the school counselor could use to deal with prejudice and its
impact at the school. The annotated list should include the name and author of the resource, type of resource
(article, film, etc.), where to access it, and a short description of the resource.