“…Microaggressions have been defined as “brief and commonplace daily verbal or behavioral indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults that potentially have a harmful or unpleasant psychological impact on the target person or group” (Sue et al, , p. 273). Scholarship originally focused on racial microaggressions, but counselors have now applied the construct to a range of identities (e.g., gender, spirituality, sexual orientation; Charles & Arndt, ; Nadal, ; Owen, Tao, & Rodolfa, ; Shelton & Delgado‐Romero, ; Tran & Lee, ). Once defined, researchers found that microaggressions correlate with indicators of physical health (e.g., hypertension), mental health outcomes, and proximal mediators of stress (e.g., social isolation, rumination, suppression, impulsive risk taking, hopelessness, negative self‐schemas, risk‐taking behavioral expectancies; for a review, see Wong, Derthick, David, Saw, & Okazaki, ).…”