PMID- 31144844
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20191231
LR  - 20211204
IS  - 0022-0167 (Print)
IS  - 0022-0167 (Linking)
VI  - 66
IP  - 6
DP  - 2019 Nov
TI  - The detrimental effect of fragile groups: Examining the role of cultural comfort 
      for group therapy members of color.
PG  - 763-770
LID - 10.1037/cou0000352 [doi]
AB  - Scholars have underscored the importance of cultural processes within therapy 
      groups, but there is a paucity of empirical research on this topic. Recently, the 
      multicultural orientation framework was applied to group therapy to address this 
      limitation and empirically test the role of cultural comfort, cultural humility, 
      and cultural opportunities in a group context. Despite this advancement, a more 
      nuanced understanding of the differential effects of cultural processes based on 
      group members' race/ethnicity status is needed. Informed by theory and research 
      on White fragility, this study sought to test the differential relationship 
      between cultural comfort and cultural concealment, as well as cultural comfort 
      and improvement, for 97 Racial-Ethnic Minority (REM) and 109 White members of 49 
      therapy groups. As hypothesized, REM status significantly moderated the 
      association between cultural comfort and clients' cultural concealment and 
      improvement, such that cultural comfort was negatively associated with cultural 
      concealment and positively associated with improvement in group therapy for REM 
      clients but not White clients. Results and implications are discussed within a 
      fragility framework. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights 
      reserved).
FAU - Kivlighan, D Martin
AU  - Kivlighan DM
AD  - Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations.
FAU - Drinane, Joanna M
AU  - Drinane JM
AD  - Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah.
FAU - Tao, Karen W
AU  - Tao KW
AD  - Department of Educational Psychology, University of Utah.
FAU - Owen, Jesse
AU  - Owen J
AD  - Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Denver.
FAU - Liu, William Ming
AU  - Liu WM
AD  - Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, University of 
      Maryland, College Park.
LA  - eng
GR  - American Psychological Foundation/
GR  - Iowa Measurement Research Foundation/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190530
PL  - United States
TA  - J Couns Psychol
JT  - Journal of counseling psychology
JID - 2985124R
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Cultural Competency/*psychology
MH  - Cultural Diversity
MH  - Ethnicity/*psychology
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Minority Groups/psychology
MH  - Professional-Patient Relations
MH  - Psychotherapy, Group/*methods
MH  - Racial Groups/ethnology/*psychology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2019/05/31 06:00
MHDA- 2020/01/01 06:00
CRDT- 2019/05/31 06:00
PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/01/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 2019-30027-001 [pii]
AID - 10.1037/cou0000352 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Couns Psychol. 2019 Nov;66(6):763-770. doi: 10.1037/cou0000352. Epub 2019 May 
      30.