Racial and ethnic diversity among trainees and professionals in psychology and neuropsychology: needs, trends, and challenges.
The United States is rapidly becoming a more racially and ethnically diverse nation, bringing the challenge of ensuring that health care specialties, including neuropsychology, are representative of and competent to serve the needs of this population. Initiatives have been undertaken to increase minority representation in training for psychology and neuropsychology. However, tracking progress requires reliable race/ethnicity data collection and reporting. On the 2002 American Psychological Association (APA) Directory Survey (APA Research Office, 2002), up to 42% of the APA membership and up to 25% of the Division 40 membership did not specify race/ethnicity status. Within Division 40, data for members who did report race/ethnicity suggest that representation of Hispanic, Asian, Black/African American, and Native American members lags substantially behind that of White members. Improved methods for collecting information on race/ethnicity are needed to meet diversity objectives.
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA. fbriggsh@jhmi.edu
Felicia
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Hill-Briggs
Jovier D
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Evans
Marc A
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Norman
D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003625:Data Collection / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000193:education* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009484:Neuropsychology / Q000193:education*; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000193:education*; D012922:Social Change; D012958:Societies, Scientific / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce