"Construing Non-white and White Clients: Mental Health Practitioners' S" by Tinashe Dune, Peter Caputi et al.
Acceptance and inclusion of diversity is challenged by the prevailing sociopolitical and ethnocultural framework of Whiteness in Australia. To examine the impact of Whiteness on practitioner construct systems, mental health practitioners’ constructions and preference for nonwhite and White people, as well as frameworks of Whiteness and nonwhiteness, were explored. Twenty White and nonwhite mental health practitioners and trainees were purposively sampled and interviewed using an adapted version of the laddering interview technique. Data was analyzed thematically and interpreted using Persona...