Michigan State University Extension
Diversity and Pluralism - D4110046
12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED346371 AUTHOR: Sanchez, Jose A.; And Others
TITLE: A Progress Report on the Research Status of
Racial/Ethnic Populations in Counseling and Psychology.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1992
NOTE: 20 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Educational Research Association (San Francisco,
CA, April 20-24, 1992).
ABSTRACT: There appears to be an urgency, influenced by
demographic changes, to learn more about
racially/ethnically diverse populations, and the counseling
and psychology fields are acknowledging the need to respond
to demographic changes. This study was conducted to assess
the status of research as regards racially/ethnically
diverse populations in the professions of counseling and
psychology, as reflected in the publications of selected
journals of the American Psychological Association and the
American Counseling Association. The study focused on the
four major racially/ethnically diverse populations in the
United States: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,
African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans
(including Eskimos and Aleuts). A selective review of the
literature was performed on racial/ethnic issues in the
fields of counseling and psychology. Ten journals published
between 1980 and 1990 were reviewed. The expectation of an
increase in articles related to racial/ethnic issues was
not supported. The findings showed that only 2.31% of the
8,227 articles reviewed focused on issues of racial/ethnic
diversity. Further analysis of the data revealed that
approximately 24.7% of the 190 identified articles were
generated by researchers out of California. Despite the
self imposed challenges to increase appreciation of
diversity within counseling and psychology, there continues
to be a dearth of research with racial/ethnic populations.
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KEY DESCRIPTORS: American-Indians; Asian-Americans;
Blacks-; Content-Analysis; Hispanic-Americans
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Counseling-; *Ethnic-Groups;
*Psychology-; *Race-; *Scholarly-Journals
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