Reckoning With Ourselves: A Critical Analysis of White Women’s Socialization and School Psychology

Surviving and thriving in school psychology through community building and storytelling: A collaborative autoethnography

“…During the 2019–2020 school year, about one-third of graduate students enrolled in a school psychology program were from racially or ethnically minoritized backgrounds (Goforth et al, 2021). We posit that this difference stems from the expectations, values, and priorities of school psychology programs to center and uphold whiteness (McKenney, 2021) that keep BIPOC school psychology graduate students from entering the field. For minoritized individuals, who are not successfully socialized into whiteness or actively resist these expectations, this can be a traumatizing experience (Blevins, 2021; Grollman, 2018; Wedemeyer-Strombel, 2018) leading to mental health problems and ultimately attrition (Boyle et al, 2022; Chrzanowski & Poudyal, 2019).…”