Construing Non-White and White Clients: Mental Health Practitioners’ Superordinate Constructs Related to Whiteness and Non-Whiteness in Australia

Acceptance and inclusion of diversity is challenged by the prevailing sociopolitical and ethnocultural framework of Whiteness in Australia. To examine the impact of Whiteness on practitioner construct systems, mental health practitioners’ constructions and preference for non-White and White people, as well as frameworks of Whiteness and non-Whiteness, were explored. Twenty White and non-White mental health practitioners and trainees were...