Counseling Black Men and Boys with Excellence

Counseling Black Men and Boys with Excellence: Exploring Career, Clinical, and School Contexts provides practice, research, and policy implications for practitioners, faculty, researchers and policy makers in the field of counseling to address the most pressing issues that Black men and boys continually encounter.

Chapters address salient gaps in the theoretical and scientific literature by offering compelling insights and perspectives that underscore the opportunities and challenges of counseling Black men and boys. Collectively, the chapters present a range of counseling tactics and other modalities that help career, clinical, and school counselors effectively support and work with Black men and boys.

Grounded in evidence-based research and the implementation science literature, the collection of chapters also offers counseling professionals and others with practical information and solutions in working with Black men and boys.

Erik M. Hines is a professor of counseling in the Department of Counseling, Leadership, and Educational Sciences within the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. His research agenda focuses on the postsecondary readiness and career development of Black men and boys across various contexts (P-12, community college, 4- year college/university) and critically examines how high impact programming shape their educational and career outcomes and experiences.

Sammy Steen is a professor, licensed Professional School Counselor, and Director of the Diversity Research Action Consortium within the Department of Counseling, Leadership, and Educational Sciences at George Mason University. Dr. Steen specializes in school counseling, group counseling and cultivating Black students’ academic identity development through research and practice.

James L. Moore III is the EHE Distinguished Professor of Urban Education and a professor of counselor education at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on school counseling, urban education, gifted education, STEM education, higher education, and multicultural counseling and education.