Making the leap to socially responsive research training in health service psychology.

Dismantling and eradicating anti-Blackness and systemic racism.

“…1. In keeping with the move toward socially responsive research training for health service psychologists (Tung et al, 2023), we would urge those that are in gate-keeping roles, journal editors, reviewers, dissertation chairs, to evaluate the degree to which conceptual and empirical work endorses and/or perpetuates anti-Blackness and systemic racism either in the study design, methods, data analytic approaches, or the interpretation of findings. As Roberts et al (2020) note, psychological research reflects the same structural inequalities found in society at large.…”

“…Beyond the contributions of the individual papers, we approached this special section as an opportunity to encourage counseling psychologists to (a) pause and re-envision the ways we work to dismantle and eradicate, anti-Blackness and systemic racism, (b) replace research methods that are inaccessible, serve only the researcher at the cost of the community being studied with methods that empower, give voice, and give back to communities, (c) engage in interdisciplinary work in order to more effectively dismantle and eradicate the racism deeply embedded in U.S. institutions and more appropriately serve BIPOC communities, (d) ensure that training programs prepare counseling psychologists to be equipped to address systems of racial oppression, and (e) reestablish the field of counseling psychology as a relevant and responsive applied specialty area of psychology that is contributing to efforts that dismantle and eradicate anti-Blackness and systemic racism (Fish & Syed, 2021; Thambinathan & Kinsella, 2021; Zavala, 2013). To this end, we articulate or amplify the following areas of research training, methodological advances, and scholarly inquiry as means toward the eradication of anti-Blackness and systemic racism.In keeping with the move toward socially responsive research training for health service psychologists (Tung et al, 2023), we would urge those that are in gate-keeping roles, journal editors, reviewers, dissertation chairs, to evaluate the degree to which conceptual and empirical work endorses and/or perpetuates anti-Blackness and systemic racism either in the study design, methods, data analytic approaches, or the interpretation of findings. As Roberts et al (2020) note, psychological research reflects the same structural inequalities found in society at large.…”

Building Program Structures to Advance Vocational Research on Women

“…Counseling psychologists rarely apply social justice and socially responsive approaches to research training (Tung et al, 2023) or to producing and disseminating research findings (Buchanan et al, 2021). To make significant strides in addressing the limitations of women's career research as noted by Fouad et al (2023), individuals need to make changes in their research, need to attend to contextual and structural variables in vocational research, and account for overlapping forms of oppression that impact women with other marginalized identities.…”

“…There should also be rewards for the dissemination of research outside of scholarly journals. Tung et al (2023) provide specific examples that faculty, program leaders, and trainees can implement to promote socially responsive research training. These examples can be integrated within counseling psychology training programs to promote socially responsive research on women's career development.…”

Socially responsive health service psychology: Implications of the 2020 CCTC conference for practitioners.

“…Wright et al (2023) further expand on this notion by providing recommendations for training program structures to reflect on their curricula and enact change in HSP training that provides trainees for socially responsive services to underrepresented communities. In addition to training and practice, Tung et al (2023) offer a socially responsive model of providing research training which benefits communities and academics alike. Benefitting communities begins with including diverse voices in the academic training space.…”