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The Nature of the Discourse on Race and Ethnicity in Play Therapy Literature

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  • Ethical and training standards across counseling-related professions contain competencies related to race and ethnicity as necessary research and practice components. One such counseling-related sub-specialty is Play Therapy, which acknowledges that professionals utilizing play therapy techniques must consider racial and cultural context, trauma, and intersectionality when working with children. However, there is no research about whether the discourse on race and ethnicity can be detected in play therapy academic writing. A corpus linguistic research approach provides an opportunity to understand the various emotional and cognitive patterns and attitudes embedded in writing content to take stock of the writer's relationship with readers concerning multiculturalism, race, and ethnicity. This dissertation represents the first effort to analyze language in play therapy discourse and further investigate the relationship play therapy writers offer to readers concerning race and ethnicity. The core of the dissertation is two empirical research manuscripts, one examining psycholinguistic elements of the International Journal of Play Therapy (IJPT) and the other exploring the authorial stance of writers who publish in the IJPT. The IJPT 400-article corpus was divided into two corpuses: one with articles that have race and ethnicity as a topic (RE) and articles that do not (NRE). For the first study, linguistic and psychological processes in play therapy articles published in IJPT were analyzed using the LIWC computer software. Findings indicated that writers of RE and NRE articles aim to distance themselves from their research and tend to present their research with a positive tone. A surprising finding, given the historical experiences and consequences of race-based harms was that RE writers use less negative emotion when discussing race and ethnicity. The second study explored the use of authorial stance, hedges, boosters, and attitude markers among RE and NRE articles in the IJPT. Regarding the level of expressing commitment/tentativeness and signaling authorial presence, regardless of the topic, IJPT writers tend to create ambiguity in their stance toward their research. The test of the difference in the use of attitude markers between RE and NRE articles showed a substantial level of difference between the subcorpuses. In terms of the required thematic linkage between the manuscripts of the dissertation, both studies begin to clarify the language, attitudes, beliefs, and intentions that writers offer about race and ethnicity to readers and mental health trainees.
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