TY - JOUR
T1 - Trainees’ Cultural Humility and Implicit Associations about Clients and Religious, Areligious, and Spiritual Identities
T2 - A Mixed-Method Investigation
AU - Winkeljohn Black, Stephanie
AU - Gold, Amanda P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Author(s) 2019.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - Therapists’ cultural humility is associated with stronger client–therapist working relationships, though therapist trainees’ cultural humility toward clients of diverse religious, areligious, or spiritual (RAS) backgrounds is unknown. This is compounded by a lack of systemic training in RAS diversity within clinical and counseling psychology programs. The current, mixed-method pilot study (N = 10) explored psychotherapy trainees’ self-reported and implicit attitudes (via Implicit Association Tasks) toward RAS diversity in clients, and then used a focus group to explore whether trainee responses to feedback about their implicit attitudes imbued themes of cultural humility that supervisors and educators could use as discussion points to heighten cultural humility and responsiveness in trainees. There was no association between trainees’ self-reported and implicit RAS attitudes; participant responses revealed cultural humility themes, including receptivity and openness to feedback (i.e., their levels of implicit attitudes toward RAS groups).
AB - Therapists’ cultural humility is associated with stronger client–therapist working relationships, though therapist trainees’ cultural humility toward clients of diverse religious, areligious, or spiritual (RAS) backgrounds is unknown. This is compounded by a lack of systemic training in RAS diversity within clinical and counseling psychology programs. The current, mixed-method pilot study (N = 10) explored psychotherapy trainees’ self-reported and implicit attitudes (via Implicit Association Tasks) toward RAS diversity in clients, and then used a focus group to explore whether trainee responses to feedback about their implicit attitudes imbued themes of cultural humility that supervisors and educators could use as discussion points to heighten cultural humility and responsiveness in trainees. There was no association between trainees’ self-reported and implicit RAS attitudes; participant responses revealed cultural humility themes, including receptivity and openness to feedback (i.e., their levels of implicit attitudes toward RAS groups).
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U2 - 10.1177/0091647119837019
DO - 10.1177/0091647119837019
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064622220
SN - 0091-6471
VL - 47
SP - 202
EP - 216
JO - Journal of Psychology and Theology
JF - Journal of Psychology and Theology
IS - 3
ER -