Danica G. Hays (Education) co-authored with University of Florida colleagues an article entitled, in The Professional Counselor journal.
Hays and colleagues conducted a content analysis of counseling scholarship related to whiteness for articles published in national peer-reviewed counseling journals within the 35-year time frame (1984–2019) following the publication of Janet Helms’s seminal work on white racial identity. Their findings outline publication characteristics and trends and present themes for key findings in this area of scholarship. They reveal patterns such as type of research methodology, sampling, correlations between white racial identity and other constructs, and limitations of white racial identity assessment. Based on this overview of extant research on whiteness, recommendations included future research that focuses on behavioral and clinical manifestations, anti-racism training within counselor education, and developing a better overall understanding of how white attitudes and behaviors function for self-protection.
