Continuing the Cultural Liberation and Transformation of Counseling Psychology

The multicultural movement has been and continues to represent a major force that is transforming the mental health professions. The field of counseling psychology has been particularly important in promoting many of these transformative changes. Over the past three decades, multicultural advocates in counseling psychology have expanded our knowledge of and lobbied for the implementation of more culturally responsive research methods, clinical practices, and professional training strategies. These collective efforts are significant in that they have helped to liberate counselors and psychologists from the intellectual incarceration (Parham, 2002) and monocultural ethnocentrism (Sue & Sue, 2003) that limit and distort how many mental health professionals think about human development in general and counseling and psychotherapy in particular. The intellectual incarceration and monocultural ethnocentrism that have been (and in many instances continue to be) perpetuated in the mental health professions are fueled by a cultural hegemony that has a pernicious psychological and spiritual impact on millions of persons from racially diverse groups in contemporary society (D’Andrea et al., 2001; West, 1999). Multicultural counseling theorists, researchers, practitioners, and faculty members in our professional training programs have helped many mental health professionals and students in graduate training programs to move beyond the kind of hegemonic thinking that fosters a myopic view of human development and psychological helping strategies. Efforts to liberate the mental health professions from their own cultural encapsulation (Wrenn, 1962, 1985) and monocultural knowledge base (Sue & Sue, 2003) require a disciplined and ongoing commitment to uncover how the cultural hegemony continues to manifest in our research methods, psychological theories, and training endeavors. By continuing their commitment to expand knowledge in counseling and psychology, multicultural advocates also help to dismantle the various forms of racism and White supremacist thinking that continue to be perpetuated in our society in general and the mental health professions in particular (Neville, Worthington, & Spanierman, 2001)

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• Racial microaggressions against African American clients in cross-racial counseling relationships.

  Madonna G Constantine•Journal of Counseling Psychology•2007

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• Preventing Racism and Promoting Social Justice

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• Creating Cultural Competence

  Open Access•Cirecie West‐olatunji, Cirecie West-Olatunji et al.•International Journal for the…•2011

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• Community Engagement Training and Research in Counseling Psychology

  Open Access•Amanda Case, Abigail Hoxsey•Journal for Social Action in…•2024

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• Liberation‐focused Community Outreach

  Open Access•Rachael D Goodman, Angela M Calderon et al.•Journal of Community Psychology•2014

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• Examining the Reactions of White, Black, and Latino/a Counseling Psychologists to a Study of Racial Issues in Counseling and Supervision Dyads

  Open Access•Shawn O Utsey, Lawrence Hammar et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2005

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• On Becoming a Counselling Psychologist

  Open Access•Nicola Amari•Journal of Humanistic Psychology•2021

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• Race and Racism in Counseling Psychology Research, Training, and Practice

  Open Access•H A Neville, Robert T Carter•The Counseling Psychologist•2005

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• White Professors Teaching About Racism

  Open Access•Laura Smith, Susan Kashubeck‐west et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2017

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• The Continuing and Evolving Challenge of Race and Ethnicity in Empirical Counseling and Counseling Psychology Research

  Open Access•Edward A Delgado‐romero, Edward A Delgado-Romero et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2005

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• Exploring Clinicians Attitudes Toward the Incorporation of Racial Socialization in Psychotherapy

  Open Access•Danice L Brown, Sha’kema Blackmon et al.•Journal of Black Psychology•2013

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• Counseling Persons of African Descent

  Thomas Parham•Counseling Persons of African…•2002

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• Racially mixed people in America

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• Selective Moral Disengagement in the Exercise of Moral Agency

  Albert Bandura•Journal of Moral Education•2002

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• White Privilege

  Peggy McIntosh•2019

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• Construct validity, censorship, and the genetics of race

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• Critical Race Theory

  Stephen Steinberg•Journal of American Ethnic History•2001

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• Reconceptualizing Native Women's Health

  Karina L Walters, Jane M Simoni•American Journal of Public Health•2002

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• Examining White Counselor Trainees’ Reactions to Racial Issues in Counseling and Supervision Dyads

  Open Access•Shawn O Utsey, Carol A Gernat et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2005

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• Race and Ethnicity in Empirical Counseling and Counseling Psychology Research

  Open Access•Edward A Delgado‐romero, Nallely Galván et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2005

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• Awareness of White Privilege among White Counseling Trainees

  Open Access•Julie R Ancis, Dawn M Szymanski•The Counseling Psychologist•2001

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• Racist Incident–Based Trauma

  Open Access•Thema Bryant-Davis, Thema Bryant‐Davi et al.•The Counseling Psychologist•2005

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• Becoming Racially and Culturally Competent

  Open Access•Robert T Carter•Journal of Multicultural…•2003

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• The Status of Racial/Ethnic Research in Counseling Psychology

  Open Access•Robert T Carter, Adeyinka M Akinsulure-Smith et al.•Journal of Black Psychology•1998

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