Multidimensional Assessment of Psychologists' Multicultural Counseling Competence
Abstract
In 1892, the American Psychological Association (APA) was founded by 26 men of European descent (Street, 1994). During this time, racial and ethnic concerns were viewed as unimportant factors; inadequate "minority representation on APA committees, lack of Blacks hired by APA's Central Office, poor representation of Black graduate students in the nation's training pipelines, and questionable theoretical underpinnings on psychology directed toward minority groups" (Guthrie, 1998, p. 146) existed throughout APA's early history. Early leaders of APA openly "referred to Black people as a 'primitive race' in a state of immature development" (Greene, 1986, p. 48) and negative stereotypes were embraced by prominent early psychologists regarding African- Americans (Greene, 1986; Thomas, 1982).
Subject Area
Behavioral psychology|Clinical psychology
Recommended Citation
Regis de Alicea, Tanya D, "Multidimensional Assessment of Psychologists' Multicultural Counseling Competence" (2014). ETD Collection for Pace University. AAI3581141.
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