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Resources on Diversity

Helpful Resources Regarding Transgender Issues

2012 APA Diversity Implementation Plan (received 8.27.2012)

Diversity Implementation Plan

Appendix A: APA Books concerned with diversity
Appendix B: APA Videos concerned with diversity
Appendix C: Thesauras Terms for diversity

www.leadwithlovefilm.com: David Huebner, Ph.D., clinical psychologist at the University of Utah and others have produced a 35 minute documentary for parents of LGBT children.

Minority Training Programs:

- APA Science Directorate for master’s and doctoral thesis funding

- Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships

- APA Minority Fellowship Program

- NIH Predoctoral Fellowship Awards for Minority Students –(http://grants.nigh.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/pa-00-069.html)
- Doctoral Scholars Program/Southern Regional Education Board

Recruiting & Training

- APA/CEMRRAT Plan for Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention & Training

- APA guide: Diversity and Accreditation

- APA guide: How to Recruit and Hire Ethnic Minority Faculty

National Links

- National Center for Cultural Competence
- National Multicultural Institute
- Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities (OMHD) from Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC)
- Office of Minority Health Resource Center Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- National alliance for Hispanic Health
- Health Disparities Collaboratives
- National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- APA Division 44: Society for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender
- APA Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority
- APA 39: Society for the Psychology of Women
- National Multicultural Conference and Summit
- Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice & Organizational Change for Psychologists
- Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs
- International Organization for Standards of Care for Transgender Patients

EBP for Treatment of Ethnic Minority and Diverse Populations

www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/brochure
www.nami.org/template.cfm

Mental Health Publications in Spanish

www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/espanol
www.cdc.gov/family/spanish/index.html

Resource Tools:

American Psychological Association Diversity Divisions:

                         - Women (http://www.apa.org/divisions/div35/)
                         - Religion (http://www.division36.org/)
                         - Sexual Orientation (http://www.apadivision44.org/ and http://www.apa.org/topics/sexuality/transgender.pdf)
                         - Ethnic Minority (http://www.apa.org/divisions/div45/)

Gender and Diversity
Center for Multicultural Psychology Research
http://www.apa.org/education/ce/1360153.aspx
http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/cdp/index.aspx
Ethnic Diversity Collaborations www.mindstylz.org
Articles/Journals/Books on Diversity
Critical Psychology: An Introduction (http://www.dennisfox.net/critpsy/book3.html)
Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology (http://jcc.sagepub.com/)
Facing Issues on Diversity (2001) (http://www.joe.org/joe/2001december/comm2.php)
Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists- American Psychological Association (2002)
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/policy/multicultural-guidelines.aspx)
Social Justice and Applied Psychology: Practical Ideas for Training the Next Generation of Psychologists (2008) (http://www.psysr.org/jsacp/Ali-V1N2-08.pdf)

University of Arkansas Resources for Diversity

Ethnicity
Multicultural
Age
Gender
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Religion