Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2017 Oct;23(4):583-587. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000136. Epub 2017 Jan 12.
In 2002, the American Psychological Association (APA) Council of Representatives approved the "Guidelines for Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice and Organizational Change for Psychologists." The Guidelines have been downloaded 64,153 times from the APA website from 2007 to 2013, and have been cited nearly 900 times. This suggests that the Guidelines have influenced education, training, research, and practice in psychology. However, it is unclear how the Guidelines have influenced these domains. We conducted a comprehensive literature review to examine how the Guidelines have influenced the field. Articles were coded for several criteria, including whether the Guidelines were cited, the type of research that was conducted, study findings, limitations, and future directions of research.
The data for this study consisted of 895 empirical articles published since the 2003 publication of the Guidelines. A literature review using the keywords APA and multicultural guidelines were searched in PsycINFO and ERIC databases. Articles were then coded by the research team.
Findings from the literature review suggested that although there were a total of 895 articles and books that cited the Guidelines, only 34 met our coding criteria.
Our findings suggest that most of the articles that cited the Guidelines used the citation as a way to document that culture is important to consider. In some cases, other professions cited the Guidelines to argue that their discipline should also attend to culture. However, very few articles focused on framing an investigation around a specific guideline. (PsycINFO Database Record
2002 年，美国心理协会（APA）代表理事会批准了“心理学家的多元文化教育、培训、研究、实践和组织变革准则”。从 2007 年到 2013 年，APA 网站已经下载了该准则 64153 次，被引用近 900 次。这表明该准则已经对心理学的教育、培训、研究和实践产生了影响。然而，目前尚不清楚该准则是如何影响这些领域的。我们进行了全面的文献综述，以考察该准则是如何影响该领域的。对文章进行了多项标准的编码，包括准则是否被引用、进行的研究类型、研究结果、局限性以及研究的未来方向。
本研究的数据来自自 2003 年准则发布以来发表的 895 篇实证文章。在 PsycINFO 和 ERIC 数据库中使用 APA 和多元文化准则等关键词进行文献综述搜索。然后由研究团队对文章进行编码。
文献综述的结果表明，虽然有 895 篇文章和书籍总共引用了该准则，但只有 34 篇符合我们的编码标准。
我们的研究结果表明，大多数引用该准则的文章只是将其作为一种方式，以证明文化是需要考虑的重要因素。在某些情况下，其他专业人士引用该准则来主张他们的学科也应该关注文化。然而，很少有文章将调查重点放在围绕具体准则进行。
