Journal article
Identity salience: An intersectional approach to understanding multicultural processes and outcomes in psychotherapy
Journal of counseling psychology, Vol.70(5), pp.477-485
2023
DOI: 10.1037/cou0000688
PMID: 37326525
Abstract
A growing body of research has demonstrated the importance of therapists’ multicultural orientation (MCO), namely, their cultural humility (CH), cultural comfort, and cultural missed opportunities, on treatment processes and outcomes (Davis et al., 2018). However, to date, few research has attempted to identify client factors that may moderate the relationship between therapists’ MCO and therapeutic processes and outcomes. Informed by Yakushko et al.’s (2009) identity salience model, this study seeks to advance the MCO literature by examining the saliency of clients’ cultural identities, therapists’ MCO, and improvement in therapy. Data for this study consisted of 193 individuals who had received at least five sessions of psychotherapy in the last 6 months and responded to an online survey about their experience in therapy. Moderated polynomial regression and response surface analysis was used to examine if the relationship between therapists’ MCO and clients’ perceived improvement in psychotherapy differed as a function of the salience of clients’ first and second most important cultural identities. The results indicated that when clients report only one highly salient cultural identity and perceive their therapist high in cultural humility, they report high levels of improvement. In contrast, when clients reported two highly salient identities, cultural humility and improvement in therapy were not significantly related. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Identity salience: An intersectional approach to understanding multicultural processes and outcomes in psychotherapy
- Creators
- Christopher AndersD. Martin Kivlighan
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of counseling psychology, Vol.70(5), pp.477-485
- DOI
- 10.1037/cou0000688
- PMID
- 37326525
- NLM abbreviation
- J Couns Psychol
- ISSN
- 0022-0167
- eISSN
- 1939-2168
- Publisher
- Amer Psychological Assoc
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100008893, name: University of Iowa
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 06/15/2023
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984433845902771
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