The Status of Racial/Ethnic Research in Counseling Psychology: Committed or Complacent?

Abstract

There has been a growing demandfor research that explores racial/ethnic issues within psychology. However, analyses of leading counseling psychology journals suggest that attention devoted to racial/ethnic issues is disproportionately less in comparison to other topics. This study is a content analysis of racial and ethnic issues in three journals along specific areas for their level of commitment versus complacency: studyframe, method, analysis, and discussion. Preliminary results indicate that research in this area is more complacent than committed. Results and recommendations forfuture study will be discussed in light of thesefindings.