The Issue of Race and the Client-Therapist Assignment
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Issues in Mental Health Nursing
- Vol. 12 (3) , 283-290
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01612849109040521
Abstract
The client-therapist assignment can play an important part in the client's therapy. The impact of the variable of race within the psychotherapeutic process is an issue of ongoing controversy, and studies supply support for both same-race and differing-race dyads. With same-race assignments not always being accessible, it is the responsibility of the therapist treating the racially differing client to examine his or her own biases, motives, and countertransference problems that arise during the client's course of treatment.Keywords
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