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African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy
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FORD, RAMONE
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Year and Degree
2008, Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education, Cleveland State University, College of Education and Human Services.
Abstract
AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS ATTITUDES TOWARDPSYCHOTHERAPY 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.
Committee
SARAH TOMAN, PhD (Committee Chair)
RONALD BEEBE, PhD (Committee Member)
ELICE ROGERS, PhD (Committee Member)
ELIZABETH WELFEL, PhD (Committee Member)
PAULA MICKENS-ENGLISH, PhD (Committee Member)
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105 p.
Subject Headings
African Americans
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Mental Health
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Psychology
Keywords
AFRICAN AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGISTS
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ATTITUDE
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PSYCHOTHERAPY
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AFRICAN AMERICAN
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FORD, R. (2008).
African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy
[Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1209519794
APA Style (7th edition)
FORD, RAMONE.
African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy.
2008. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1209519794.
MLA Style (8th edition)
FORD, RAMONE. "African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1209519794
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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African American Psychologists Attitudes Towards Psychotherapy by RAMONE FORD is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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