ABSTRACT

Mental health professionals have been charged with providing competent and ethical mental health care to individuals from a variety of racial cultural groups (American Psychological Association, 2003; Brown, 2013; Kapoor, Dike, Burns, Carvalho, & Griffith, 2013). In response to this charge, training programs have steadily increased the number and improved the quality of multicultural courses taught in their curricula. While cultural competency integration has been largely met with openness, some White trainees exhibit resistance to learning about topics such as race and racism (Carter, 2005).