African Americans' Perceptions of Psychotherapy and Psychotherapists

By V. Thompson, Anita Bazile, Maysa Akbar. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury (2007, background): “In many studies of discrimination (e.g., Sanders-Thompson, 1996) and race-related stress (e.g., Clark et al., 1999; Utsey & Ponterotto, 1996), exposure to such experiences are related to psychological (e.g., anxiety) and physical distress (e.g., increased blood pressure), but they have not considere”
Graduate Student Mental Health: Needs Assessment and Utilization of Counseling Services (2006, background): “Similarly, Asian and African-American graduate students may be less likely to utilize counseling services compared to White graduate students because of cultural or language barriers and commonality with mental health service providers (Cheng, Leong, & Geist, 1993; Lau & Nolan, 2000; Thompson, Bazi”
Do Gender and Racial Differences Between Patient and Therapist Affect Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Retention in Adolescents (2005, background): “By doing so, perhaps a greater initial trust between patient and therapist, resulting from a common cultural identity, will render similar beliefs with respect to mental health (Thompson et al., 2004; Wong, Kim, Zane, Kim, & Huang, 2003).”
Africentric Cultural Values, Psychological Help-Seeking Attitudes, and Self-Concealment in African American College Students (2005, background): “…might contribute to cultural stereotyping of their larger ethnic or cultural group by counselors, or (d) the fear that the psychological services offered will be unresponsive to their holistic needs or even oppressive at some level (Constantine et al., 2004; Thompson et al., 2004; Whaley, 2001).”
Help-Seeking Attitudes, Mental Health Stigma, and Self-Concealment Among African American College Students (2012, background): “…the inverse link between self-concealment and favorable help-seeking attitudes may be established in part because the fear of selfdisclosure is generalized to seeking professional mental health services, where self-disclosure is often inevitable (Thompson et al., 2004; Wallace & Constantine, 2005).”
Racial microaggressions and the Asian American experience. (2009, background): “Focus groups have been found to be an effective means of obtaining in-depth information about a relatively unexplored concept (Seal, Bogart & Ehrhardt, 1998; Krueger, 1994) and used successfully to explore racial perceptions on a number of topics (Saint-Germain, Bassford & Montano, 1993; Solorzano e”