Filipino American Therapists and White Supremacy: Training as a Filipino American Therapist Whilst Navigating the Model Minority Myth and Colonial Mentality in Graduate School
Date of Award
2023
Document Type
Doctoral Research Paper
Degree Name
Psy.D.
Organizational Unit
Graduate School of Professional Psychology
First Advisor
Lavita Nadkarni
Second Advisor
Mallaree Blake
Third Advisor
Nai Chieh (Geri) Tien
Keywords
Filipino American, Colonial mentality, Model minority myth, White supremacy, Multicultural supervision
Abstract
Asian communities continue to gain visibility, but Filipino American narratives remain underrepresented in the psychological literature. While commonalities exist between different Asian subgroups, Filipino Americans have a unique relationship with White supremacy through the constructs of the Model Minority Myth and Colonial Mentality that reflects the Philippine’s history as an Asian country colonized by both Spain and America for centuries. Moreover, White supremacy affects Filipino American therapists similarly to other clinicians of color, so thorough multicultural education and multicultural competent supervision within graduate school training are imperative to ensure the effectiveness of treatment interventions for developing Filipino American clinicians in graduate school. Thus, this research project discusses how the Model Minority Myth and Colonial Mentality can impact Filipino American therapists in graduate school. More specifically, this autoethnography explores my narrative as a Filipino American clinician in a doctoral program to consider how the Model Minority Myth and Colonial Mentality hindered my work with a White-identified client in addition to how both my graduate program’s multicultural curriculum and my supervisors’ expression of multicultural competence in my supervision did not sufficiently foster my development as a Filipino American clinician affected by White supremacy. It is my hope that the discussions presented in this research project add to the collection of literature focused on Filipino Americans and White supremacy while also serving as a guide to graduate school programs and supervisors moving forward so they can better support Filipino American training clinicians in light of their histories and intersecting identities.
Publication Statement
Copyright is held by the author. Permanently suppressed.
Extent
48 pgs
Recommended Citation
Vindua, Jerimi Infante, "Filipino American Therapists and White Supremacy: Training as a Filipino American Therapist Whilst Navigating the Model Minority Myth and Colonial Mentality in Graduate School" (2023). Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Doctoral Papers and Masters Projects. 488.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/capstone_masters/488