The Impact Of Cultural Mistrust Racial Identity And Attitudes For Seeking Professional Psychological Help On Prospective Black Clients Preference For Their Counselors Race

Download or read book The Impact of Cultural Mistrust, Racial Identity, and Attitudes for Seeking Professional Psychological Help on Prospective Black Clients' Preference for Their Counselor's Race written by Darryl Lee Townes and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The results of a multiple regression analysis indicated that participants with higher scores on the Cultural Mistrust Inventory, lower scores on the Preencounter Assimilation subscale, and higher scores on the Internalization Afrocentricity subscale showed a greater preference for a Black counselor. Black participants might have preferred a Black counselor due to their strong feelings of mistrust of Whites, attitudes that reject assimilation into the dominant, White culture and attitudes that emphasized positive connections to Black people and African culture. A finding that may have significantly influenced Black participants' preference for a Black counselor was the significant relationship found between scores on the Cultural Mistrust Inventory and the Immersion - Emersion Anti-White subscale. Strong feelings of mistrust of Whites were significantly related to strong feelings of hatred and disdain for White people.