Mental health is not just on the issues, but also the statistics of the mixed population for different race groups. Approximately, multiracial descents make up a national population about 7.5 million people. Latinos is considered common mixed race, but doesn’t count because those who is considered to be a mixed with Hispanic are forced to choose one racial identity. As for African-Americans, 30% to 70% are considered multiracial by several generations of multiracial.
According to Sue (2016), gender is a thought that Latinas, Asian American, and Native American women are more likely than men to marry interracially. Although, Black and White men have a higher interracial marriage rate, they are not at large as other races. The highest rate of …show more content…
Almost 7 million Americans identified with more than one race and 1 in 18 children are born of mixed race. The multiracial population is used to acknowledge the interracial couples, multiracial families, multiracial individuals, and transracial adoptees and families. According to Brandell (1988),
“In addition to gaining knowledge however, the authors believe it is of even greater importance for counseling and other helping professionals to be aware of any assumptions or biased attitudes and beliefs they may hold about these couples, families, and individuals. Counselors and other helping professionals are not immune to and often hold the same stereotypes and misinformation about groups of people as the general populace” …show more content…
Multiracial descents go through so much as to just being one race. Multiracial descents have to accept both sides of their cultures and face discrimination from people who are judge by other racial groups. Knowing that multiracial descents have to find out who they are as an individual and being accepted by their parents is extremely important. After reading and reviewing the materials, understanding that there are no actual techniques to help them is shocking. Multiracial descents are constantly growing over the years and just addressing the common questions of what you mix with, instead researchers need to dig deeper into knowing that most techniques are not going to work. Multiracial descent will need more strength to get them through ever discrimination that they will come up
According to Sue (2016), gender is a thought that Latinas, Asian American, and Native American women are more likely than men to marry interracially. Although, Black and White men have a higher interracial marriage rate, they are not at large as other races. The highest rate of …show more content…
Almost 7 million Americans identified with more than one race and 1 in 18 children are born of mixed race. The multiracial population is used to acknowledge the interracial couples, multiracial families, multiracial individuals, and transracial adoptees and families. According to Brandell (1988),
“In addition to gaining knowledge however, the authors believe it is of even greater importance for counseling and other helping professionals to be aware of any assumptions or biased attitudes and beliefs they may hold about these couples, families, and individuals. Counselors and other helping professionals are not immune to and often hold the same stereotypes and misinformation about groups of people as the general populace” …show more content…
Multiracial descents go through so much as to just being one race. Multiracial descents have to accept both sides of their cultures and face discrimination from people who are judge by other racial groups. Knowing that multiracial descents have to find out who they are as an individual and being accepted by their parents is extremely important. After reading and reviewing the materials, understanding that there are no actual techniques to help them is shocking. Multiracial descents are constantly growing over the years and just addressing the common questions of what you mix with, instead researchers need to dig deeper into knowing that most techniques are not going to work. Multiracial descent will need more strength to get them through ever discrimination that they will come up