African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy

 
 
 
 

African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy

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dc.contributor.advisor TOMAN, SARAH en_US
dc.contributor.author FORD, RAMONE en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-07-07T16:04:51Z
dc.date.available 2008-07-07T16:04:51Z
dc.date.created 2008 en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-07-07T16:04:51Z
dc.identifier.uri http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1209519794 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/4127
dc.description AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS ATTITUDES TOWARD PSYCHOTHERAPY RAMONE FORD ABSTRACT Over the last fifty years, Americans attitude of psychotherapy has become more accepting. However, in the African American community the attitudes have not been as accepting. Thompson, Bazile, and Akbar(2004)documented that African Americans had utilized alternative resources such as friends, the church and other community resources, in attending to commonly treatable mental health disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety). The purpose of this dissertation is to discover the attitudes of African American psychologists toward psychotherapy. Jordan, Bogat, and Smith (2001) hypothesized that African American professional psychologists will be the future of conducting research with African Americans, because of their cultural knowledge, communal ties and psychological professionalism. This development could have huge implications in changing the attitudes of the African American communitys position towards psychotherapy, depending on these psychologists own views of psychotherapy for African Americans. Eighty-nine African American psychologists served as participants. They were asked to respond to scales that measured attitudes of receiving professional psychological help, Africentrism, and psychological stigma. The participants were surveyed electronically using Survey Monkey and email. Data analyses using correlational analyses and ANOVAs determined that African American psychologists with more positive attitudes towards receiving professional psychological help and who indicate a strong identification with Africentric values are less likely to associate social stigma with psychological treatment. There were no significant differences with regard to the African American psychologists gender, educational level, area of work expertise, and years of professional experience and their scores on three measures, the Attitude Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale (Fischer and Turner, 1970), Africentrism (Grills and Longshore, 1996), and Social Stigma for Receiving Psychological Help (Komiya, et al., 2000). This study shed light on foundational aspects of African American psychologists attitudes. It appeared that many variables, including education and training from the professional psychological community, may have had a positive effect on African American psychologists attitudes towards help-seeking behavior and psychotherapy when compared to the views of African Americans in the community. en_US
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dc.subject AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS en_US
dc.subject ATTITUDE en_US
dc.subject PSYCHOTHERAPY en_US
dc.subject AFRICAN AMERICAN en_US
dc.title African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy en_US
dc.type Electronic Thesis or Dissertation en_US
dc.degree.name PhD en_US
dc.degree.level doctoral en_US
dc.degree.discipline Education and Human Services en_US
dc.degree.grantor Cleveland State University en_US
dc.contributor.publisher Cleveland State University / OhioLINK en_US

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