The Color of Treatment

Exploring How Counselors Discuss Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Treatment

While clinicians are trained to identify how various disorders impact clients' well-being, they also must be able to have conversations about race, ethnicity, and culture in the treatment setting. This website will:

Highlight barriers that Black individuals face while seeking and engaging in treatment.
Review how therapists currently engage in conversations of race, ethnicity, and culture.
Introduce treatment modalities and an anti-racism framework that can be incorporated into clinical practice.

Welcome

Research asserts that African Americans experience higher levels of psychological distress than their White counterparts; nevertheless, they are accessing mental health treatment at lower rates (CDC, 2016; SAMHSA, 2021)

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The Color of Treatment Website has been created to:

Highlight the barriers that Black individuals face when accessing and engaging in treatment.

Review how therapists currently engage in conversations about race, ethnicity and culture.

Introduce anti-racist approaches to utilize in treatment.

Provide resources for counselors to use while working with Black patients.