Training and Education in Professional Psychology, Vol 19(1), Feb 2025, 37-50; doi:10.1037/tep0000497
In an effort to move beyond applied psychology’s culturally encapsulated Eurocentric worldview, several guidelines on how to responsively work across cultures have recently been set forth by the profession (e.g., American Psychological Association, 2017; Ridley et al., 2021; Sue et al., 2022). However, many of these guidelines focus on the acquisition of knowledge and not skills. Thus, this article proposes a coherent framework through which cross-racial psychotherapy skills can be developed among graduate-level students. More specifically, we look at the impact of salient topics such as racialized trauma and race and culture in therapy as well as challenges and considerations in cross-cultural training and propose the cross-racial training approach, a five-level training model consisting of trainee awareness, therapeutic safety, broaching, insight work, and healing work that is designed for White and Black, Indigenous, and people of color trainees. We present two clinical vignettes to demonstrate the model. The article concludes with a discussion of the model’s potential strengths, shortcomings, and implications. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)