Week 5: Clinical Psychology's Relationship to BIPOC Communities

Question 1

How has the development of intelligence testing been problematic with racialized people?

Answer 1

• ranked comparative worth of different races
• many psychology developers support eugenics
• suspected low intelligence used to justify forced or coerced sterilization in Canada
• differences in intelligence used to justify segregated education system for Black, Mexican and Indigenous Americans

Question 2

What are the ways in which intelligence testing has been misused and contributed to racism/discrimination?

Answer 2

• belief in genetic bias and racial hierarchy of intelligence
• tests developed by and based on White/European Canadians/Americans
• content and item bias in intelligence tests
• lower scores among racially diverse groups
• justification for lower quality education
• perpetuation of fault and racist assumptions

Question 3

How has Psychology in Canada contravened Respect for Right and Dignity of Persons and People with Indigenous Peoples?

Answer 3

failing to acknowledge the social injustice for over a century of federal policy aimed at the eradication of Indigenous culture and peoples through residential schooling

Question 4

How has Psychology in Canada contravened Responsible Caring with Indigenous Peoples?

Answer 4

• relying on methods that are foreign and harmful to Indigenous peoples
• care provided has not been grounded in appropriate cultural understandings
• treatment has not been responsible and has been traumatizing

Question 5

How has psychology in Canada contravened Integrity in Relationships?

Answer 5

psychologists have not engaged in the essential cultural safety and cultural competence training required to reflect on cultural values, implicit biases and ethnocentrism

Question 6

How has psychology in Canada contravened Responsibility to Society?

Answer 6

• not demonstrated respect for social structures of Indigenous communities in Canada
• approaches to assessment and treatment have not been normed or validated in partnership with Indigenous populations
• psychological tools that are inappropriate have been used to support discriminatory policies`

Question 7

What is the Truth and Reconciliation Committee Task Force Report?

Answer 7

a statement of accountability and responsibility to Indigenous Peoples on behalf of the profession of psychology in Canada

Question 8

What is cultural diversity in four main aspects of Clinical Psychology?

Answer 8

• perspectives on therapy
• participants in clinical trials
• clinicians
• service users

Question 9

What is the difference between cultural competence and antiracism?

Answer 9

• cultural competence is respecting the ways others live and having an openness to learn from them
• anti-racism is a more active stance and a consistence process of change to completely eliminate racism