02334nam a22002057a 4500 20240116114513.0 240116b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0022-0167 Anders, Christopher Identity salience : An intersectional approach to understanding multicultural processes and outcomes in psychotherapy (Journal Article) Washington DC : American Psychological Association , 2023 477-485p. The Journal of Counseling Psychology , Volume 70: Number 5, October 2023 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: A growing body of research has demonstrated the importance of therapists’ multicultural orientation (MCO), namely, their cultural humility (CH), cultural comfort, and cultural missed opportunities, on treatment processes and outcomes (Davis et al., 2018). However, to date, few research has attempted to identify client factors that may moderate the relationship between therapists’ MCO and therapeutic processes and outcomes. Informed by Yakushko et al.’s (2009) identity salience model, this study seeks to advance the MCO literature by examining the saliency of clients’ cultural identities, therapists’ MCO, and improvement in therapy. Data for this study consisted of 193 individuals who had received at least five sessions of psychotherapy in the last 6 months and responded to an online survey about their experience in therapy. Moderated polynomial regression and response surface analysis was used to examine if the relationship between therapists’ MCO and clients’ perceived improvement in psychotherapy differed as a function of the salience of clients’ first and second most important cultural identities. The results indicated that when clients report only one highly salient cultural identity and perceive their therapist high in cultural humility, they report high levels of improvement. In contrast, when clients reported two highly salient identities, cultural humility and improvement in therapy were not significantly related. Multicultural Counseling| Process and outcome| multicultural orientation| Identity Salience Kivlighan III, D. Martin https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000688 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2024-01-16 0 2024-01-16 00:00:00 2024-01-16 PER 45213 45212