Cultural Mistrust: An Important Psychological Construct for Diagnosis and Treatment of African Americans

By A. Whaley. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Clinical Psychology

1. R. Travis
2. Yinglee Wong
3. E. David
4. Tamara G J Leech
5. M. Irving
6. D. Penn
7. K. Nadal
8. J. Pierre

In Social Psychology

1. Yinglee Wong
2. M. Irving
3. C. Hudley
4. K. Nadal
5. R. Travis
6. E. David
7. Tamara G J Leech
8. D. Penn

Citations in the corpus

• Cultural Mistrust, Academic Outcome Expectations, and Outcome Values among African American Adolescent Men (2005, background): “…to have more negative attitudes toward therapy with White clinicians and greater expectations of bias from the mental health system (Phelps, Taylor, & Gerard, 2001; Terrell, Daniloff, Garden, Flint-Shaw, & Flowers, 2001; Thompson, Nevelle, Weathers, Postin, & Atkinson, 1990; Whaley, 2001a, 2001b).”
• Perceived Racism as a Predictor of Paranoia Among African Americans (2006, background): “Paranoia levels have been found to be consistently elevated among African Americans (Combs, Penn, & Fenigstein, 2002; Whaley, 2001a), and many researchers have suggested that this may be a form of “cultural paranoia” that is based on the experience of being a minority in a hostile environment (Grier”
• Ten Considerations in Addressing Cultural Differences in Psychotherapy (2003, background): “periences, including cultural perspectives (Whaley, 2001).”
• Mistrust and misinformation: A two-component, socio-epistemic model of belief in conspiracy theories (2020, background): ““Cultural paranoia” has therefore been reframed as “cultural mistrust” (Whaley, 2001), defined as a “racism reaction” characterized by “a tendency to distrust Whites based upon a legacy of direct or vicarious exposure to racism or unfair treatment by Whites” (Thompson et al.”
• Twelve Practical Suggestions for Achieving Multicultural Competence (2004, background): “Whaley (2001) insightfully reframed the “paranoia” attributed to many African Americans as “cultural mistrust” born of decades of negative experience with Caucasians.”
• Cultural mistrust and mental health help-seeking attitudes among Filipino Americans. (2010, background): “This mistrust of White Americans and the entities they control is theorized to be because of the centuries of oppression that African Americans have experienced and are still experiencing (e.g., Carter, 2007; Whaley, 2001a).”
• Empowerment-Based Positive Youth Development: A New Understanding of Healthy Development for African American Youth (2014, background): “They also face the stigma that can accompany institutionalization and the fear and distrust that can heighten within their communities (Keating & Robertson, 2004; Whaley, 2001).”
• The Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Mental Health: Counseling Implications for Clients of Color (2014, background): “Given the cultural mistrust that is often experienced by clients of color (Whaley, 2001), microaggressions must be prevented (and addressed when they occur) to decrease the dropout rates for clients of color in counseling.”