A Five-Year Plan For Transformation:
Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention,
And Training in Psychology1



Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology August 1996
MAJOR OBJECTIVES COMPLETION DATE EST. COSTS RESPONSIBLE PARTY
Promote and Improve Multicultural Education and Training in Psychology
1. Evaluate the quality of treatment given to multicultural issues in textbooks and teaching/learning aids, and inform the discipline of the status of the presentation and treatment of ethnic minority issues in existing textbooks. BEA/TF on Diversity
  • Develop procedures and identify participants for the textbook review activity (e.g. by contacting Divisions 2, 45, and others).
 8/97 Minimal2
  • Devise guidelines to evaluate the multicultural appropriateness of psychology textbooks through use of an expert panel.
 5/97 $5,000
  • Review major psychology textbooks according to defined multicultural guidelines; publish the results of the review in a major APA journal; disseminate information to publishers, editors, and reviewers.
 1/98 $40,000
  • Design an initiative to encourage publishers to include multicultural content in psychology textbooks at all educational levels (e.g., develop a resource bank of continually updated multicultural research findings).
 1998 $10,000

2. Help psychology trainers, educators, and researchers to become literate in multicultural issues and facilitate the inclusion of multicultural topics in classroom and field experiences through conduct and sponsorship of workshops and convention presentations.

BEA/TF on Diversity
  • Develop a grant proposal to support a meeting of experts to define guidelines and procedures for introducing multicultural content into high school and college textbooks and to identify resource materials (videos, tapes, workbooks, books, etc.)
 1997 Solicit grant
for est. $25,000
  • Develop standards for good practice and minimal multicultural competencies related to student and faculty issues, including but not limited to:
    Course content and culturally sensitive practices in the classroom.
1998 $15,000
  • Inform high school and college teachers of appropriate textbooks and resource materials through work shops and presentations at the APA convention.1997-2001 Minimal
1997-2001 Minimal
  • Conduct an annual APA workshop on multicultural issues in teaching, including information on how to manage a culturally sensitive classroom.
 1996-2001 Minimal
  • Facilitate the incorporation of ethnic minority materials and issues in college and graduate/professional school curricula; collect and disseminate model multi-cultural curricula and descriptions of procedures for presentation of these curricula.
 1997-2001 Collection:$5,000
Production and Dissemination:$35,000
  • Produce a book on multicultural issues in psychologythat is conceptualized around competencies in basic areas of practice and research and that will include annotated lists of readings, syllabi, films, and videos, case studies, critical incidents, and other teaching tools.
Revised book proposal: 3/98
Submit final manuscript: 1/99 Publication: 2000 		$25,000
  • Conduct a mail survey of internships listed in the APPIC Directory to determine the extent to which they provide clinical experiences with multicultural clients and supervisors, and offer workshops/seminars in multicultural assessment and intervention.
 1996-1997 $3,000

1The plan's estimated costs must be adjusted for inflation each year in determining funding levels. Also, the plan's estimated costs do not include cossts of any extraordinary (unbudgeted) staff support that might be required.

2"Minimal costs" are defined as $500 or less.

The Commission's Five Year Plan Table of Contents