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Research-informed psychology practitioner with training in multiple therapeutic disciplines and 10+ years of experience in forensics, hospitals, and community mental health providing evaluation, individual and group psychotherapy to seriously mentally ill individuals from culturally diverse backgrounds and with significant histories of dangerousness. Research on severely mentally ill, at-risk, and cultural minority populations has resulted in the publishing of 5 clinically-focused textbooks, 16 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 22 professional conference presentations. Accomplishments in research and practice have been recognized with 16 merit-based commendations from 2006-2017.
Caucasian Therapist Self-Disclosure to Cultural Minority Clients
In offering further commentary to the article on Caucasian therapist self-disclosure to cultural minority populations, it is important to begin by more generally acknowledging both individual and between group differences. This is an important beginning because aspects of cultural competency are so often avoided as a larger subject through the statement ‘everyone is different.’ While […]
Graham Danzer, Psy.D.
March 11, 2018
White Therapist Self-Disclosure in Multicultural Contexts
Within the conceptual literature, multicultural therapeutic approaches have long recognized therapist self-disclosure as a skill or even competency (Bitar, Kimball, Bermúdez, & Drew, 2014; Henretty & Levitt, 2010). Self-disclosure has been discussed as an intervention that may build trust and credibility in cross-cultural contexts (Constantine & Kwan, 2003; Henretty & Levitt, 2010). Disclosure may suggest […]
Graham Danzer, Psy.D.
October 24, 2017