“…Although the effect of color-blind racial attitudes on the therapeutic process has not been directly studied, research evidence from client reports suggests that counselors who were culturally responsive (perhaps a reflection of the degree to which a therapist is color-blind) were rated as more credible and culturally competent (Atkinson, Casas, & Abreu, 1992;Gim, Atkinson, & Kim, 1991;Pomales, Claiborn, & LaFromboise, 1986), reported higher client satisfaction and lower client attrition rates from counseling (Wade & Bernstein, 1991), and had clients who self-disclosed more intimately (Thompson, Worthington, & Atkinson, 1994) than did counselors who were culturally unresponsive. Furthermore, Thompson and Jenal (1994) found that African American women became more frustrated and exasperated with counselors, regardless of their racial background (i.e., African American, European American), when the counselors actively avoided racial content in counseling.…”