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- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2018 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 57 –95
- DOI
- 10.1037/0000086-004
- Publisher site
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Abstract
This chapter explores the situation in which privilege favors the therapist. Even though most of the literature on cultural competency and diversity tends to take this situation for granted, assuming it is the therapist who has some kind of majority status and the client who is less privileged, little has been written to explicitly address this as a unique situation. Privilege favoring the therapist refers to an interpersonal context in which the therapist has relative social privileges while the patient is in a position of relative societal subordination, not simply because of being in the role of patient but also because of bearing a less-valued social position than the therapist. Two main themes permeate the chapter: ways to disown or act out privilege, and difficulties in holding privilege in a sensitive way even while noticing a power imbalance that is greater than the normal asymmetrical relationship of patient to therapist. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: May 28, 2018
Keywords: cultural competency; diversity; patient; privilege; relative societal subordination; therapist