Therapists are less willing to use effective tough love CBT on blacks vs whites

Various lines of evidence suggest that America has been enduring worsening mental/emotional health during the Great Awokening, especially among the types of people who are supposed to be helped by Wokeness (women, blacks, LGBTs, nonbinary black women, etc.)
Why? Well one reason appears to be that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which appears to have the best track record of effectiveness among talk therapies, is falling out of fashion for use with Patients of Wokeness.
From PsyPost (which publishes academic press releases):

Therapists find it less appropriate to use cognitive change strategies when treating Black vs White patients
by Patricia Y. Sanchez June 15, 2022
… New research published in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy found that therapists find it less appropriate to use cognitive change therapeutic techniques with Black patients compared to White patients.
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a well-established treatment for depression and works by helping patients identify and adjust maladaptive thought and behavior patterns. Therapists help patients to do this using cognitive methods to bring about cognitive change to then decrease symptoms of depression.

My layman’s impression is that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy works sort of like this:
Patient: “Whenever I think about how my life was ruined by my mother / ex-boyfriend / boss / the White Male Patriarchy / FDR’s redlining / hair-touching, etc., I get so depressed.”
Therapist: “So don’t think about that so much. Here are some techniques for you to try that many have found helpful in overcoming depression by getting out of self-undermining thought spirals like yours.”
In essence, CBT is skeptical and/or apathetic about what patients say is Their Truth about Their Lived Experience. Its attitude toward patients’ asserted recollections tends to be, “Swell, but let’s move on.”
But we’ve been trained to Believe Women, especially intersectional Black Women, about their Lived Experience. So therapists are pressured by our culture to validate the self-destructive recollections of blacks — Why, yes, you should be depressed about Emmett Till — and thus not be as quick to use the arsenal of CBT techniques to help blacks as to help whites.

Study authors Iony D. Ezawa and Daniel R. Strunk looked at existing data on CBT treatment of depression and found that therapists utilized cognitive methods less extensively when they worked with Black patients compared to when they worked with White patients. Why this difference is observed is not clear.
“Some psychologists have suggested that culturally competent therapists working with minority patients would be well-advised to avoid questioning the validity of patients’ thoughts and beliefs, and instead validate their patients’ self-reported experiences,” explained the researchers. “Were therapists using other techniques, such as validation (i.e. affirming patients’ experiences are understandable and make sense), in place of cognitive methods? Or perhaps, were there some clinical characteristics other than race that might account for these differences? Furthermore, might these differences be related to therapists’ own racial attitudes?”
They sought to answer these questions by conducting an experiment to examine therapists’ judgments of the appropriateness of different clinical CBT strategies (e.g., cognitive change and emotional validation) to treat depression in either White or Black patients. The researchers recruited 218 American and Canadian therapists to complete the study (most of whom were White: 84.4%).
Each participant was presented with four clinical case vignettes which contained information about the depressed patient’s background, their presenting problem, and an image of the patient. Therapists either received all Black patients or all White patients (manipulated by the image of the patient).
Participants also answered a series of questions measuring their judgment of the appropriateness of several clinical strategies with each patient. They also completed measures of racial attitudes toward Black people and social desirability (i.e., the tendency to respond in a way that is socially desirable rather than truthful).
Results show that, in general, therapists thought cognitive change strategies were more therapeutic for White patients and indicated they’d spend more time working on cognitive change strategies with White patients than Black patients. On the other hand, therapists thought validation techniques were more therapeutic for Black patients than White patients.
Overall, validation strategies were rated as more important than cognitive change strategies for Black patients, but these strategies were rated equally important for White patients. Racial attitudes were related to these judgments in that more positive racial attitudes were associated with judging both cognitive change and validation strategies as therapeutic.
“These findings support our hypothesis that therapists tend to regard validation strategies as more appropriate to use than cognitive change strategies when treating Black patients. We suspect that therapists were inclined to think that using cognitive change strategies would risk suggesting that the therapist does not believe or fully appreciate the patients’ experience.”

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[Lizard Pope]

CBT (no, not that kind) fails on all three words with the blacks.
Cognitive - there’s no cognition, no real thought process.
Behavioral - you know damn well these niggers can’t behave.
Therapy - niggas don’t go to therapy, niggas pull a drive by and miss every shot.
Of course it’s not going to work.

 

[Montalbane]

Sometimes life is like cbt withtout the c and b

 

[Haramburger]

Therapy for blacks is stealing things like bikes or cars. It's an adrenaline rush when they get away with it, and longer financial satisfaction because they have accumulated wealth by doing so. They do it in gangs as a form of group therapy. I don't recommend it, but this is how niggers have chosen to self-treat.

 

[General Disarray]

You have to have a level of cognition for CBT to work, though.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

“Some psychologists have suggested that culturally competent therapists working with minority patients would be well-advised to avoid questioning the validity of patients’ thoughts and beliefs, and instead validate their patients’ self-reported experiences,” explained the researchers.

Ah, so PhD level dindu nuffin.

 

[Cuckoman]

Faggot got it all wrong. It was there in the data all the time but he failed to see it.
The reason why WHITE CIS MEN are not going crazy or fragile like every other demographic is because we
have been targeted and harrased constantly for 6 years and counting.
It made us STRONG. It made use RESILIENT. It made us laugh at your retarded screeching we are nazis, transphobes, white supremacists, turbo-maga.
Nothing you say can hurt us anymore. We just laugh and the insult just bounces off.

You created us. You made us this strong. You made us immune to your retarded insults. What you gonna do now?

I wear the autism sticker with pride! Thankyou man woman or whatever you are.

I know the answer!
The therapists used less CBT on black people because they were in an enclosed space and did not want the black person to chimp out and murder them in some chimpout rage attack, like you frequently see on TV when the guy at McDonalds mixes up an order and serves a hamburger instead of a cheeseburger. Because violence is the only way to resolve disagreements like this.

What did I win?

We are all autists here. You have a better theory then lets hear it.

 

[Quato Lives!]

When did this crackpot idea that people need to go to "therapy" become so commonplace?

Imagine being such an intellectual wimp that you think you need to pay for this rent-a-friend service.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

When did this crackpot idea that people need to go to "therapy" become so commonplace?

Imagine being such an intellectual wimp that you think you need to pay for this rent-a-friend service.

Its not so much rent a friend.

Its that you've developed defective thinking and you don't know how to get back to effective thinking.

Most Mental health professionals "Solution" is drugs and "affirming" care

 

[Quato Lives!]

If you just go out and 'grab life by the pussy' , then you wouldn't need to waste your money
on some schlub who probably just gossips about how crazy you are to their real friends.

 

[Manwithn0n0men]

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If you just go out and 'grab life by the pussy' , then you wouldn't need to waste your money
on some schlub who probably just gossips about how crazy you are to their real friends.

Not if they want to keep their 2-3 hundo an hour gig

 

[The-Patriarchy]

The reason why WHITE CIS MEN are not going crazy or fragile like every other demographic is because we
have been targeted and harrased constantly for 6 years and counting.
It made us STRONG. It made use RESILIENT. It made us laugh at your retarded screeching we are nazis, transphobes, white supremacists, turbo-maga.
Nothing you say can hurt us anymore. We just laugh and the insult just bounces off.

You created us. You made us this strong. You made us immune to your retarded insults. What you gonna do now?

I slightly disagree,

It made the strong stronger, and it culled out the weak by encouraging them to become soyboys, cucks, male feminists, and troons, thus taking them out of the gene pool- this is why they need to groom our children, because eventually, natural selection like this makes kids who are "great giant monsters who take over the world" while the weak, cucked, emasculated, hormone blocker castrati cannot and/or will not have/raise children unless they can parastically take them from their strong virile parents.

 

[Clown Baby]

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If you just go out and 'grab life by the pussy' , then you wouldn't need to waste your money
on some schlub who probably just gossips about how crazy you are to their real friends.

Stickies came back like 10 hours ago, already crying. In a thread about CBT being more lenient towards black people no less lmao maybe you should look into CBT to help cope with getting meaningless doots on your posts without shitting your pants, fam

 

[Otterly]

CBT works well for some things. Anything where the issue is your response to stimuli or situations being harmful to you. So it’s good for that, but in the UK it’s pushed as a panacea for all Ills simply becasue it’s cheap and can be administered by staff who are trained quickly.

 

[Quato Lives!]

Stickies came back like 10 hours ago, already crying. In a thread about CBT being more lenient towards black people no less lmao maybe you should look into CBT to help cope with getting meaningless doots on your posts without shitting your pants, fam

There is no crying here.
I'm just wondering why gullible morons feel like they need to pay some
CRT educated schlub to listen to them whine abour their shit life decisions.

You should ease up on the ghetto slang. I am not your "fam".

 

[José Mourinho]

There is no crying here.
I'm just wondering why gullible morons feel like they need to pay some
CRT educated schlub to listen to them whine abour their shit life decisions.

You should ease up on the ghetto slang. I am not your "fam".

Dude, you literally post a screencap of someone rating your post negative. Who are you trying to fool?

Crying about ratings is retarded rate this post negative if you agree

 

[Ser Prize]

It gets to the heart of the problem, minorities can never be held responsible for their actions under woke.

CBT is all about learning to help yourself. It's about recognising bad thinking patterns and habits. Understanding them and why they fail you. It's about learning new ones, ultimately changing their attitude to make things better for yourself. It's about how people get in their own way. How to stop them from doing so.

When you say a black person has no responsibility for anything negative in their life. That everything bad is because of systemic oppression. Of course, you can't give them therapy for them to help themselves.

The whole your truth aspect, also means you can't criticise them for being wrong in the way their view and think.

I like to fall back on understanding how woke thinks less of black people with California's maths classes. Black students are falling behind. It assumes there's nothing those students can do to improve their grades. It thinks less of them. So it looks at everything else besides getting those students to work harder at maths.

Sounds like trannies could use some CBT in their lives.

 

[The Last Stand]

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If you just go out and 'grab life by the pussy' , then you wouldn't need to waste your money
on some schlub who probably just gossips about how crazy you are to their real friends.

Show us on the doll where she touched you.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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If you just go out and 'grab life by the pussy' , then you wouldn't need to waste your money
on some schlub who probably just gossips about how crazy you are to their real friends.

You have your rating notifications on. You need therapy.

 

[Sithis]

It honestly comes down to this -

Black people as well as many Latinos tend to not do the "homework" required for directive CBT therapy.
It really is that simple.

The reasons for this do vary. Some of them are resistant to therapy anyway because they're suspicious of officiated health programs (an actually understandable perspective considering Tuskegee etc), some of them have a hoodrat mentality and think any form of self care is for bitches, many of them are simply too lazy to be bothered.

And CBT homework is mindnumbingly simple stuff from the client side. It's literally shit like "if you experience a craving for a cigarette during the day, write down what you were doing in the immediate time before you experienced the craving" etc.

This shit about "validation" is just another way of phrasing "they don't want to bother with directive therapy because it's easier to just do Rogerian UPR and talk therapy". I think they're confusing the standard "you are valid, you are worthy, you are good" aspect of that with being directly targeted toward a racial matter when it's really just something universally applied even to shithead clients.

Honestly it's a shame Asians are so averse to therapy in the first place because if they weren't they'd probably be the best at therapy homework too