ABSTRACT

Relative to White youth, racially and ethnically marginalized youth in the U.S. are less likely to initiate treatment, stay in treatment, and receive adequate care. This special issue attends to racial injustice in clinical child and adolescent psychology. While numerous factors drive these racial disparities, this special issue focuses specifically on opportunities and responsibilities we have as mental health providers, teachers, mentors, researchers, and gatekeepers to make our field more racially just. In this introduction to the special issue, we review barriers and solutions across multiple contexts including structural, institutional, and practice-based. We also discuss challenges and opportunities to diversify our field and increase the representation of racially and ethnically marginalized practitioners and scholars in clinical child and adolescent psychology. We then briefly review the special issue articles and make final recommendations for how to move the field forward.

摘要

相对于白人青年，美国的种族和族裔边缘化青年开始治疗、坚持治疗和接受充分护理的可能性较小。本期特刊关注临床儿童和青少年心理学中的种族不公正问题。虽然造成这些种族差异的因素有很多，但本期特刊特别关注我们作为心理健康提供者、教师、导师、研究人员和看门人所拥有的机会和责任，以使我们的领域更加种族公正。在本期特刊的介绍中，我们回顾了多种背景下的障碍和解决方案，包括结构性、制度性和基于实践的背景。我们还讨论了使我们的领域多样化并增加临床儿童和青少年心理学中种族和民族边缘化从业者和学者的代表性的挑战和机遇。然后，我们简要回顾特刊文章，并就如何推动该领域向前发展提出最终建议。