In 2015, Lin, Stamm, and Christidis reported that 86 percent of psychologists in the U.S. workforce were white, 5 percent were Asian, 5 percent were Hispanic, 4 percent were Black/African-American, and 1 percent were multiracial or from other racial/ethnic groups. They went on to highlight that psychology is less diverse than the U.S. population as a whole, which was 62 percent white and 38 percent racial/ethnic minority.

The American Psychological Association (APA) reported that from 2011 to 2021, the demographics of the U.S. psychology workforce showed that white psychologists made up 80.85 percent of the workplace, compared to Blacks at 5.08 percent, Hispanics at 7.95 percent, American Indian/Alaska Natives at 0.13 percent, Asians at 3.28 percent, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders at 0.03 percent.

The APA also reported that psychology’s workforce is becoming more diverse: “More people of color are earning psychology degrees, a trend that is enhancing the diversity of the psychology workplace,” but “most psychologists are still white” with 46.9 percent female and 53.6 percent male.

Such information alerted me to the fact that the psychology field........

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