Counseling or working with African American women

Below is an article below that delves into some of the issues that you might want to be mindful of when counseling or working with African American women.  One point that this writer found to be interesting in this article was the point that African American women do not commonly seek formal counseling to deal with life’s problems and usually only will seek formal counseling when they have exhausted all other resources (friends, family, church, etc.) After reading this article, what do you think are some possible ways to change this cycle?

Counseling African American Women.pdf