Pioneers
of Multicultural Counseling: An Interview With
Janet E. Helms
Robert T. Carter
This article presents an interview with Dr. Janet
E. Helms, scholar, researcher, and mentor in the
fields of multicultural counseling and psychology.
In this interview, Dr. Helms reflects on her educational
and professional development and gives her thoughts
about multiculturalism as it relates to her own
work.
Over the course of the last two decades, Janet
E. Helms has been a major force in psychology.
Since graduating from Iowa State University in
1975, she has been a major contributor and driving
force in innovative empirical research and theory
building pertaining to issues of race, gender,
and culture in psychology. Her influential theory
building, specifically regarding racial (Black
and White) and “womanist” identity,
reaches outside the boundaries of psychology.
She also has, in collaboration with her associates
and students, given empirical validity to multicultural
counseling and psychology. Her research and theories
are frequently cited, and many of her publications
are seminal in the field and soon will be classics.
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