Arpana G Inman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arpana G Inman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arpana G |
| FAMILY NAME | Inman |
| SIGNATURE | INMAN A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8785-0291 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 257 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Racism-Related Stress and Coping Among 1.5- and Second-Generation Asian Indian Americans
Perceptions of Asian Indian Americans (AIAs) as model minorities minimize the experiences of racism they face. The authors qualitatively examined racism and related coping among forty-four 1.5- and second-generation AIAs (sixteen 1.5-generation and twenty-eight second-generation; 79.54% women; ages 19-54 years). Grounded theory analysis of focus group interview data revealed three domains: (a) Awareness of and Experiences of Racism; (b) Psycholog…
Racial Socialization Experiences Among 1.5 and 2nd Generation Indian Americans
Few studies have focused on the racial socialization of Indian Americans, particularly those raised in the United States. The present study explored 1.5 and 2nd generation Indian Americans’ experiences of racial socialization in multiple contexts. Forty-four adult Indian Americans from diverse regions of the United States participated in semi-structured focus group interviews via video teleconference. Sixteen participants were 1.5 generation and …
Reenvisioning ethnic–racial identity: Asian Indian American experiences
Identity formation among immigrant communities, particularly for ethnic-racial minorities like Asian Indian Americans, is a multifaceted process. Shaped by preimmigration histories of British colonization and the caste system and the Indian diasporic postimmigration, experiences of physical and psychological displacement alongside racism in the United States contribute to the complexity of identity for this community. Although existing racial and…
Culture and Positionality: Academy and Mentorship
Literature suggests that mentors play a unique role in individuals’ personal and career development. In this article, I highlight how a feminist mentoring style has influenced my academic and professional journey from student to Full Professor, as I have assumed leadership roles at my university and nationally. Using theory and research as a backdrop, I explore how my multiple identities–international student, immigrant, women, Asian Indian-inter…
Supporting Disaster Relief Efforts Internationally: A Call to Counseling Psychologists
The increased occurrence of natural and human-made disasters has led to a greater call for culturally sensitive engagement in disaster mental health. In this article, we aim to stimulate culturally focused participation and competence among counseling psychologists who engage in disaster mental health work. Framed within an ecological and systemic interaction of individual, cultural, community, and structural factors, the article is based on two …
Framework for Competencies for U.S. Psychologists Engaging Internationally
Despite some general guidelines, tips, and calls for international engagement, there are no explicit descriptions of competencies for U.S. psychologists engaged in professional work outside of their own country. This article outlines the rationale for developing such competencies needed to engage effectively outside one’s country and proposes broad descriptions of core competencies and specific competencies for teaching, practice, research, and c…
Social Justice Mentoring and Scholarship: Building a Community of Leaders and Advocates
In this 2018 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship keynote address, I speak about the importance of social justice mentoring and scholarship as a way to build communities of leaders and advocates. First, I contextualize my journey as an international student and an Asian Indian woman existing within multiple social and cultural locations. Second, I highlight those individuals who have influenced me on my academic journey. Finally, I …
Leadership in the Society of Counseling Psychology and the Academy: Insights and Reflections
In this Presidential Address, I reflect on my leadership journey both within the Society of Counseling Psychology and within the academy. Consistent with the theme of my presidency, Leadership Through Advocacy: Influencing and Advancing Change, I speak to the four initiatives that I developed during my presidential year (2017–2018), namely (a) leadership development in midcareer and early career professionals, (b) continued engagement in respectf…
Asian Indian Women: Domestic Violence, Mental Health, and Sites of Resilience
Culture is foundational to human experiences. As such, different cultural contexts and systems create different realities and lived experiences. Psychological knowledge and experiences within this context are then subject to socio-cultural systems, historical events, the distribution of economic and political power, and privileged positions of people within the system. This article highlights Asian Indian women’s lived experiences with domestic v…
Graduate Trainees’ Social Justice Supports, Beliefs, Interest, and Commitment
The present study examined the direct and indirect relationships between belief in a just world, belief in an unjust world, perceived social supports, and training supports, and social justice self-efficacy beliefs, interest, and commitment among 274 graduate counselor trainees. Structural equation modeling revealed that social justice self-efficacy had direct and indirect effects on social justice commitment by bolstering social justice interest…
Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States
The current study examined how historical, social, and political contexts in their country of origin and their host country have influenced first-generation Asian Indians’ racialized experiences in the United States. We conducted nine separate focus groups with a total of 50 first-generation Asian Indian participants (20 men and 30 women). In a semistructured interview, participants were asked about the factors that influence their perceptions of…
Competent Counseling for Middle Eastern American Clients: Implications for Trainees
The authors used a factorial multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to determine whether counselor trainees' group differences on measures of multicultural competence, empathy, and multicultural counseling self-efficacy (CSE) when working with Middle Eastern American (MEA) clients were moderated by trainee race. Two hundred and fifty-six trainees responded to 3 different clinical vignettes that gave information on clients who had varying degr…
Psychological research on South Asian Americans: A three-decade content analysis
International Advisees' Perspectives on the Advising Relationship in Counseling Psychology Doctoral Programs
Ten international students in U.S.-based counseling psychology doctoral programs were interviewed regarding their experiences as doctoral students, especially their advising relationship. Data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR). Participants reported more challenges than benefits of being international students, and more often described their doctoral programs as not culturally receptive than receptive to international stud…
South Asian Americans: Perceived discrimination, stress, and well-being
Supervisors’ Experiences of Providing Difficult Feedback in Cross-Ethnic/Racial Supervision
Seventeen clinical supervisors were interviewed regarding their experience of providing difficult feedback in cross-ethnic/racial supervision, and their responses were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR). European American supervisors described supervisees of color who had difficulty in their clinical work with culturally different clients. These supervisors then shared with supervisees their concern that supervisees’ interperson…
Predictors of Cultural Values Conflict for Asian Indian Women
This study explored the relationship between the family environments and coping styles and the cultural values conflicts of 110 Asian Indian women. Results indicated that women perceiving supportive family environments had less sex role conflict. Additionally, avoidant and emotion-focused coping predicted high conflict regarding intimate relations and sex role expectations. Implications are discussed.Este estudio exploró la relación entre los ent…
Asian Indians' responses to discrimination: A mixed-method examination of identity, coping, and self-esteem
Ecologically Based, Culturally Concordant Responding Following Disasters: The Counseling Psychologist’s Role
This article reviews the existing theory, research, policy, and practice of disaster mental health and the role of counseling psychology in post-disaster and catastrophic situations, all from a social justice perspective. Specifically, we discuss the phases and stages, social ecology, and individual reactions to disasters. A case study is presented, followed by mental health interventions and counseling psychology’s role in these interventions at…
In Her Own Words: Ethnic-Minority Bisexual Women's Self-Reported Counseling Needs
Literature on counseling competence with lesbian and gay clients has been growing; however, research on bisexual-specific counseling is in its early stages. The counseling needs of ethnic-minority and female bisexual clients remain largely unexamined. Qualitative interviews with 14 ethnic-minority bisexual women were conducted to investigate the counseling considerations for this population. Consensual qualitative research analysis was used. Anal…
Middle Eastern Americans: The Effects of Stigma on Attitudes Toward Counseling
The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of self-stigma of mental illness on the relationship between perceived public stigma of mental illness and attitudes toward counseling. One hundred and two Middle Eastern Americans from universities across the United States participated in the study. Path analysis consisting of multiple regressions revealed that mediation was not met. However, results revealed that participants with gr…
School Counselors in International School: Critical Issues and Challenges
Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation in Counseling Psychology: Strategies for Best Practices
This article presents an overview of various strategies and methods of engaging in qualitative data interpretations and analyses in counseling psychology. The authors explore the themes of self, culture, collaboration, circularity, trustworthiness, and evidence deconstruction from multiple qualitative methodologies. Commonalities and differences that span across approaches are explored. Implications for how researchers address qualitative data an…
Cultural transmission: Influence of contextual factors in asian indian immigrant parents' experiences
Sixteen 1st-generation Asian Indian mothers and fathers were interviewed about the influence of immigration on retention of their own ethnic identity and their ability to promote a sense of ethnic identity in their 2nd-generation children. Data were analyzed with the consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill et al., 2005) and revealed ethnic identity retention to be influenced by engagement in cultural celebrations and activities, a…
Bereavement and Coping of south Asian Families post 9/11
Eleven first-generation South Asian family members who lost a relative in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, were interviewed about their loss and their coping strategies. Data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology. Participant responses clearly delineated bereavement reactions and coping within a cultural framework.Once miembros de una familia surasiática de primera generación que perdieron a un…
Cultural transmission: Influence of contextual factors in asian indian immigrant parents' experiences
Sixteen 1st-generation Asian Indian mothers and fathers were interviewed about the influence of immigration on retention of their own ethnic identity and their ability to promote a sense of ethnic identity in their 2nd-generation children. Data were analyzed with the consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill et al., 2005) and revealed ethnic identity retention to be influenced by engagement in cultural celebrations and activities, a…
Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation in Counseling Psychology: Strategies for Best Practices
This article presents an overview of various strategies and methods of engaging in qualitative data interpretations and analyses in counseling psychology. The authors explore the themes of self, culture, collaboration, circularity, trustworthiness, and evidence deconstruction from multiple qualitative methodologies. Commonalities and differences that span across approaches are explored. Implications for how researchers address qualitative data an…
South Asian women: Identities and conflicts
This study investigated the effects of education, level of religiosity, ethnic identity (internal and external), and racial identity statuses (conformity, dissonance, resistance, and awareness) on cultural value conflict for first and second generation South Asian women (N = 193). Cultural value conflict was examined in two areas, intimate relations and sex-role expectations. Results revealed that level of religiosity was more predictive of intim…
Students' Perceptions of Multicultural Training in Counseling Psychology Programs
The Multicultural Competency Checklist (Ponterotto, Alexander, & Grieger, 1995) was used to assess counseling psychology students' perceptions of multicultural training in their programs. Results revealed that most students perceived their programs to (a) have a required multicultural counseling course, (b) employ diverse teaching strategies and procedures, (c) use varied methods of evaluating performance, and (d) have faculty members whose prima…
Bereavement and Coping of south Asian Families post 9/11
Eleven first-generation South Asian family members who lost a relative in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, were interviewed about their loss and their coping strategies. Data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology. Participant responses clearly delineated bereavement reactions and coping within a cultural framework.Once miembros de una familia surasiática de primera generación que perdieron a un…
Asian American families' collectivistic coping strategies in response to 9/11
Our study investigated the use of individualistic and collectivistic coping strategies among Asian American family members of victims of the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on September 11th, 2001. Interviews were conducted with 11 Asian Americans who had lost a member of their family in the WTC attacks. Using the Discovery-Oriented Research analysis (Mahrer, 1988), results indicated that Asian Americans utilized the following collectivistic cop…
Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States
The current study examined how historical, social, and political contexts in their country of origin and their host country have influenced first-generation Asian Indians’ racialized experiences in the United States. We conducted nine separate focus groups with a total of 50 first-generation Asian Indian participants (20 men and 30 women). In a semistructured interview, participants were asked about the factors that influence their perceptions of…
Critical Incidents Among Novice Counselor Trainees
The authors attempted to gain an understanding of critical incidents (CIs) from the perspective of novice counselor trainees during their 1st year of supervised clinical practicum. Journals kept by 9 trainees in master's-level counseling programs were qualitatively analyzed using the discovery-oriented research methodology (A. Mahrer, 1988). One hundred fifty-seven CIs emerged in 5 major categories: (a) professional identity, (b) personal reactio…
Supervisors’ Experiences of Providing Difficult Feedback in Cross-Ethnic/Racial Supervision
Seventeen clinical supervisors were interviewed regarding their experience of providing difficult feedback in cross-ethnic/racial supervision, and their responses were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR). European American supervisors described supervisees of color who had difficulty in their clinical work with culturally different clients. These supervisors then shared with supervisees their concern that supervisees’ interperson…
Supporting Disaster Relief Efforts Internationally: A Call to Counseling Psychologists
The increased occurrence of natural and human-made disasters has led to a greater call for culturally sensitive engagement in disaster mental health. In this article, we aim to stimulate culturally focused participation and competence among counseling psychologists who engage in disaster mental health work. Framed within an ecological and systemic interaction of individual, cultural, community, and structural factors, the article is based on two …
Psychological research on South Asian Americans: A three-decade content analysis
Graduate Trainees’ Social Justice Supports, Beliefs, Interest, and Commitment
The present study examined the direct and indirect relationships between belief in a just world, belief in an unjust world, perceived social supports, and training supports, and social justice self-efficacy beliefs, interest, and commitment among 274 graduate counselor trainees. Structural equation modeling revealed that social justice self-efficacy had direct and indirect effects on social justice commitment by bolstering social justice interest…
Racial Socialization Experiences Among 1.5 and 2nd Generation Indian Americans
Few studies have focused on the racial socialization of Indian Americans, particularly those raised in the United States. The present study explored 1.5 and 2nd generation Indian Americans’ experiences of racial socialization in multiple contexts. Forty-four adult Indian Americans from diverse regions of the United States participated in semi-structured focus group interviews via video teleconference. Sixteen participants were 1.5 generation and …
Ecologically Based, Culturally Concordant Responding Following Disasters: The Counseling Psychologist’s Role
This article reviews the existing theory, research, policy, and practice of disaster mental health and the role of counseling psychology in post-disaster and catastrophic situations, all from a social justice perspective. Specifically, we discuss the phases and stages, social ecology, and individual reactions to disasters. A case study is presented, followed by mental health interventions and counseling psychology’s role in these interventions at…
Reenvisioning ethnic–racial identity: Asian Indian American experiences
Identity formation among immigrant communities, particularly for ethnic-racial minorities like Asian Indian Americans, is a multifaceted process. Shaped by preimmigration histories of British colonization and the caste system and the Indian diasporic postimmigration, experiences of physical and psychological displacement alongside racism in the United States contribute to the complexity of identity for this community. Although existing racial and…
Culture and Positionality: Academy and Mentorship
Literature suggests that mentors play a unique role in individuals’ personal and career development. In this article, I highlight how a feminist mentoring style has influenced my academic and professional journey from student to Full Professor, as I have assumed leadership roles at my university and nationally. Using theory and research as a backdrop, I explore how my multiple identities–international student, immigrant, women, Asian Indian-inter…
Predictors of Cultural Values Conflict for Asian Indian Women
This study explored the relationship between the family environments and coping styles and the cultural values conflicts of 110 Asian Indian women. Results indicated that women perceiving supportive family environments had less sex role conflict. Additionally, avoidant and emotion-focused coping predicted high conflict regarding intimate relations and sex role expectations. Implications are discussed.Este estudio exploró la relación entre los ent…
Asian Indian Women: Domestic Violence, Mental Health, and Sites of Resilience
Culture is foundational to human experiences. As such, different cultural contexts and systems create different realities and lived experiences. Psychological knowledge and experiences within this context are then subject to socio-cultural systems, historical events, the distribution of economic and political power, and privileged positions of people within the system. This article highlights Asian Indian women’s lived experiences with domestic v…
In Her Own Words: Ethnic-Minority Bisexual Women's Self-Reported Counseling Needs
Literature on counseling competence with lesbian and gay clients has been growing; however, research on bisexual-specific counseling is in its early stages. The counseling needs of ethnic-minority and female bisexual clients remain largely unexamined. Qualitative interviews with 14 ethnic-minority bisexual women were conducted to investigate the counseling considerations for this population. Consensual qualitative research analysis was used. Anal…
Social Justice Mentoring and Scholarship: Building a Community of Leaders and Advocates
In this 2018 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship keynote address, I speak about the importance of social justice mentoring and scholarship as a way to build communities of leaders and advocates. First, I contextualize my journey as an international student and an Asian Indian woman existing within multiple social and cultural locations. Second, I highlight those individuals who have influenced me on my academic journey. Finally, I …
Competent Counseling for Middle Eastern American Clients: Implications for Trainees
The authors used a factorial multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to determine whether counselor trainees' group differences on measures of multicultural competence, empathy, and multicultural counseling self-efficacy (CSE) when working with Middle Eastern American (MEA) clients were moderated by trainee race. Two hundred and fifty-six trainees responded to 3 different clinical vignettes that gave information on clients who had varying degr…
Leadership in the Society of Counseling Psychology and the Academy: Insights and Reflections
In this Presidential Address, I reflect on my leadership journey both within the Society of Counseling Psychology and within the academy. Consistent with the theme of my presidency, Leadership Through Advocacy: Influencing and Advancing Change, I speak to the four initiatives that I developed during my presidential year (2017–2018), namely (a) leadership development in midcareer and early career professionals, (b) continued engagement in respectf…
Students' Perceptions of Multicultural Training in Counseling Psychology Programs
The Multicultural Competency Checklist (Ponterotto, Alexander, & Grieger, 1995) was used to assess counseling psychology students' perceptions of multicultural training in their programs. Results revealed that most students perceived their programs to (a) have a required multicultural counseling course, (b) employ diverse teaching strategies and procedures, (c) use varied methods of evaluating performance, and (d) have faculty members whose prima…
Asian American families' collectivistic coping strategies in response to 9/11
Our study investigated the use of individualistic and collectivistic coping strategies among Asian American family members of victims of the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on September 11th, 2001. Interviews were conducted with 11 Asian Americans who had lost a member of their family in the WTC attacks. Using the Discovery-Oriented Research analysis (Mahrer, 1988), results indicated that Asian Americans utilized the following collectivistic cop…
South Asian women: Identities and conflicts
This study investigated the effects of education, level of religiosity, ethnic identity (internal and external), and racial identity statuses (conformity, dissonance, resistance, and awareness) on cultural value conflict for first and second generation South Asian women (N = 193). Cultural value conflict was examined in two areas, intimate relations and sex-role expectations. Results revealed that level of religiosity was more predictive of intim…
Critical Incidents Among Novice Counselor Trainees
The authors attempted to gain an understanding of critical incidents (CIs) from the perspective of novice counselor trainees during their 1st year of supervised clinical practicum. Journals kept by 9 trainees in master's-level counseling programs were qualitatively analyzed using the discovery-oriented research methodology (A. Mahrer, 1988). One hundred fifty-seven CIs emerged in 5 major categories: (a) professional identity, (b) personal reactio…
Qualitative Data Analysis and Interpretation in Counseling Psychology: Strategies for Best Practices
This article presents an overview of various strategies and methods of engaging in qualitative data interpretations and analyses in counseling psychology. The authors explore the themes of self, culture, collaboration, circularity, trustworthiness, and evidence deconstruction from multiple qualitative methodologies. Commonalities and differences that span across approaches are explored. Implications for how researchers address qualitative data an…
Cultural transmission: Influence of contextual factors in asian indian immigrant parents' experiences
Sixteen 1st-generation Asian Indian mothers and fathers were interviewed about the influence of immigration on retention of their own ethnic identity and their ability to promote a sense of ethnic identity in their 2nd-generation children. Data were analyzed with the consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill et al., 2005) and revealed ethnic identity retention to be influenced by engagement in cultural celebrations and activities, a…
Bereavement and Coping of south Asian Families post 9/11
Eleven first-generation South Asian family members who lost a relative in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001, were interviewed about their loss and their coping strategies. Data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR) methodology. Participant responses clearly delineated bereavement reactions and coping within a cultural framework.Once miembros de una familia surasiática de primera generación que perdieron a un…
Middle Eastern Americans: The Effects of Stigma on Attitudes Toward Counseling
The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effect of self-stigma of mental illness on the relationship between perceived public stigma of mental illness and attitudes toward counseling. One hundred and two Middle Eastern Americans from universities across the United States participated in the study. Path analysis consisting of multiple regressions revealed that mediation was not met. However, results revealed that participants with gr…
School Counselors in International School: Critical Issues and Challenges
In Her Own Words: Ethnic-Minority Bisexual Women's Self-Reported Counseling Needs
Literature on counseling competence with lesbian and gay clients has been growing; however, research on bisexual-specific counseling is in its early stages. The counseling needs of ethnic-minority and female bisexual clients remain largely unexamined. Qualitative interviews with 14 ethnic-minority bisexual women were conducted to investigate the counseling considerations for this population. Consensual qualitative research analysis was used. Anal…
Asian Indians' responses to discrimination: A mixed-method examination of identity, coping, and self-esteem
Ecologically Based, Culturally Concordant Responding Following Disasters: The Counseling Psychologist’s Role
This article reviews the existing theory, research, policy, and practice of disaster mental health and the role of counseling psychology in post-disaster and catastrophic situations, all from a social justice perspective. Specifically, we discuss the phases and stages, social ecology, and individual reactions to disasters. A case study is presented, followed by mental health interventions and counseling psychology’s role in these interventions at…
South Asian Americans: Perceived discrimination, stress, and well-being
Supervisors’ Experiences of Providing Difficult Feedback in Cross-Ethnic/Racial Supervision
Seventeen clinical supervisors were interviewed regarding their experience of providing difficult feedback in cross-ethnic/racial supervision, and their responses were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR). European American supervisors described supervisees of color who had difficulty in their clinical work with culturally different clients. These supervisors then shared with supervisees their concern that supervisees’ interperson…
Predictors of Cultural Values Conflict for Asian Indian Women
This study explored the relationship between the family environments and coping styles and the cultural values conflicts of 110 Asian Indian women. Results indicated that women perceiving supportive family environments had less sex role conflict. Additionally, avoidant and emotion-focused coping predicted high conflict regarding intimate relations and sex role expectations. Implications are discussed.Este estudio exploró la relación entre los ent…
International Advisees' Perspectives on the Advising Relationship in Counseling Psychology Doctoral Programs
Ten international students in U.S.-based counseling psychology doctoral programs were interviewed regarding their experiences as doctoral students, especially their advising relationship. Data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research (CQR). Participants reported more challenges than benefits of being international students, and more often described their doctoral programs as not culturally receptive than receptive to international stud…
Psychological research on South Asian Americans: A three-decade content analysis
Graduate Trainees’ Social Justice Supports, Beliefs, Interest, and Commitment
The present study examined the direct and indirect relationships between belief in a just world, belief in an unjust world, perceived social supports, and training supports, and social justice self-efficacy beliefs, interest, and commitment among 274 graduate counselor trainees. Structural equation modeling revealed that social justice self-efficacy had direct and indirect effects on social justice commitment by bolstering social justice interest…
Perceptions of Race-Based Discrimination Among First-Generation Asian Indians in the United States
The current study examined how historical, social, and political contexts in their country of origin and their host country have influenced first-generation Asian Indians’ racialized experiences in the United States. We conducted nine separate focus groups with a total of 50 first-generation Asian Indian participants (20 men and 30 women). In a semistructured interview, participants were asked about the factors that influence their perceptions of…
Competent Counseling for Middle Eastern American Clients: Implications for Trainees
The authors used a factorial multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to determine whether counselor trainees' group differences on measures of multicultural competence, empathy, and multicultural counseling self-efficacy (CSE) when working with Middle Eastern American (MEA) clients were moderated by trainee race. Two hundred and fifty-six trainees responded to 3 different clinical vignettes that gave information on clients who had varying degr…
Asian Indian Women: Domestic Violence, Mental Health, and Sites of Resilience
Culture is foundational to human experiences. As such, different cultural contexts and systems create different realities and lived experiences. Psychological knowledge and experiences within this context are then subject to socio-cultural systems, historical events, the distribution of economic and political power, and privileged positions of people within the system. This article highlights Asian Indian women’s lived experiences with domestic v…
Framework for Competencies for U.S. Psychologists Engaging Internationally
Despite some general guidelines, tips, and calls for international engagement, there are no explicit descriptions of competencies for U.S. psychologists engaged in professional work outside of their own country. This article outlines the rationale for developing such competencies needed to engage effectively outside one’s country and proposes broad descriptions of core competencies and specific competencies for teaching, practice, research, and c…
Social Justice Mentoring and Scholarship: Building a Community of Leaders and Advocates
In this 2018 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship keynote address, I speak about the importance of social justice mentoring and scholarship as a way to build communities of leaders and advocates. First, I contextualize my journey as an international student and an Asian Indian woman existing within multiple social and cultural locations. Second, I highlight those individuals who have influenced me on my academic journey. Finally, I …
Leadership in the Society of Counseling Psychology and the Academy: Insights and Reflections
In this Presidential Address, I reflect on my leadership journey both within the Society of Counseling Psychology and within the academy. Consistent with the theme of my presidency, Leadership Through Advocacy: Influencing and Advancing Change, I speak to the four initiatives that I developed during my presidential year (2017–2018), namely (a) leadership development in midcareer and early career professionals, (b) continued engagement in respectf…
Culture and Positionality: Academy and Mentorship
Literature suggests that mentors play a unique role in individuals’ personal and career development. In this article, I highlight how a feminist mentoring style has influenced my academic and professional journey from student to Full Professor, as I have assumed leadership roles at my university and nationally. Using theory and research as a backdrop, I explore how my multiple identities–international student, immigrant, women, Asian Indian-inter…
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