That is

not my
therapist!
Laila Terry
Research Question

Why aren't there more psychologists and counselors of

color?How does this lack of representation affect folks
seeking mental health help?

The topic is important because I have had experience with

having to talk to a counselor or therapist who doesn't have the
same experience as me and never will because they are not a
person of color.
Racial Dialogues
The author/psychologist Derald Wing Sue examines the deception, increment
racial education, and encourages improved race relations. This article is
writing exclusively for the individual utilization of the individual client and
isn't to be spread comprehensively. Disagreements regarding whether women
are just about as mistreated as minorities, regardless of whether race issues are
a higher priority than social class, or whether we now live in a post racial
society cover the genuine secret discourse happening between the
understudies, which includes fears of uncovering cozy contemplations and
convictions identified with race/bigotry and the individual significance it has
for the understudies Sue, Lin, et al., First, there was close to unanimity among
understudies and staff that the most pointless and least viable procedure taken
by teachers was inaction: permitting race converse with be blended peacefully,
being detached despite a warmed trade, permitting understudies to assume
control over the study hall, or removing the exchange. Understanding the
brain research of race talk from the perspective of White Americans and
minorities has significant ramifications for how psychologists can utilize this
information to encourage troublesome exchanges on race. Sue has expressed
the solution ideas he has had throughout this whole article.
Increasing the visibility
In the Increasing the visibility of providers of color, the author
Hannah Calkins examines the burden of having to explain your
cultural background or explain your experience as a person of color to
a therapist who hasn't had the same experiences. The author explores
the inside people of color communities, in which individuals have
verifiably confronted deceptive or helpless therapy from the clinical
foundation. Calkins establishes the goal to fight this problem is to
“provide education on the importance and value of mental health and
make it accessible for people to find therapists of color who come
from their culture.”Which can prove to be very valuable in the future
and is really beneficial to the mental health of people of color.
Lack of mental help
within the black
community
 Socialcultural and sociopolotical

The author/psychologist Derald Wing Sue examines the racial injustices throughout the psychologist and
mental health community as well as his own life since he experienced racism. He was ashamed of his
racial/cultural heritage and battling a sense of racial inferiority. Among the primary psychologists to
point out for racial-social predisposition, Derald Wing Sue drove the advancement of apa's Multicultural
Guidelines and helped to establish the National Multi-social Summit. Frequently portrayed as the
century's most influential multicultural clinician, Sue co-wrote Counseling the Culturally Diverse, the
world's most widely used text on multicultural guiding. His new street numbers, microaggressions, a
theoretical structure that is right now being embraced all throughout the planet by means of the United
Nations–supported train-ings. Described by insightful greatness, responsibility, sympathy, and
consideration, Derald Wing Sue's vocation sparkles as a model of what brain research in the public
interest can be at its most optimistic level. Sue challenged the monocultural basis of the profession,
described counseling/therapy as forms of cultural oppression, revealed the sociocultural and
sociopolitical basis of psychology, and advocated strongly for the development of cultural competence.
Sue has suggested some very great solutions as one being just allowing voices to be heard and allowing
voices of the oppressed to be made visible.
 Solution #1
A workshop with individuals who have
suffered from mental health problems
due to lack of representation and/or
individuals who have worked with a
psychologist they were not comfortable
with telling their experiences as they
would not know whats that like
Solution #2
I plan to gain more knowledge from
individuals who have suffered from my
description. Also to get suggestions from
them as well on how to improve this
problem. I find that people who have
experienced this can tell me more than
someone who has not.
With the panel I plan to deliver steps of
action to squash the problem all together. I
wanted to get the whole caps community
together to disgust what some of my ideas are
and of course they can also give suggestions
etc. I’ve already talked to a psychologist in
that department, Jarcie Carr who is
knowledgeable about what my topic is and I
know she'd be on board with my steps of
action.
Logistics:
Logistics
Who will be involved?
1. Gen-X
2. 100 students of color
3. Caps

There should be any major costs to set up both of these events on campus.
Materials Needed:
1. Tables
2. Chairs
3. Flyers
4. Room room maybe gym or student union
I would like to implement this event sometime in the fall
Promo flyers can be made with a cool design on them!!
Work Cited
Derald Wing Sue: Award for
Distinguished Senior Career
Contributions to Psychology in the
Public Interest.” The American
psychologist 68.8 (2013): 661–663. Web
.
Sue, Derald Wing. “Race Talk: The
Psychology of Racial Dialogues.” The
American psychologist 68.8 (2013):
663–672. Web.

Calkins, H. (2020, September 1).

Increasing the visibility of providers
of color. Retrieved March 14, 2021,
from
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2020/0
9/increasing-providers-color