In this 2018 Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship keynote address, I speak about the importance of social justice mentoring and scholarship as a way to build communities of leaders and advocates. First, I contextualize my journey as an international student and an Asian Indian woman existing within multiple social and cultural locations. Second, I highlight those individuals who have influenced me on my academic journey. Finally, I share how my experiences, research, and clinical work have shaped my mentoring style and my desire to “pay it forward.”
BertschK. N.Bremer-LandauJ. D.InmanA. G.DeBoer KreiderE. R.PriceT. A.DeCarloA. L. (2014). Evaluation of the critical events in supervision model using gender related events. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 8, 174–181. doi:10.1037/tep0000039
2.
BhabhaH. K. (1994). The location of culture. New York, NY: Routledge.
3.
Brady-AmoonP.MakhijaN.DixitV.DatorJ. (2012). Social justice: Pushing past boundaries in graduate training. Journal of Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, 4, 85–98.
4.
BrooksL. M.InmanA. G.KlingerR. S.MaloufM. A.KaduvettoorA. (2010). In her own words: Ethnic minority bisexual women’s self reported counseling needs. Journal of Bisexuality, 10, 253–267. doi:10.1080/15299716.2010.500959
5.
BurkardA. W.KnoxS.ClarkeR.PhelpsD.InmanA. G. (2014). Supervisors’ experiences of providing difficult feedback in cross-cultural supervision. The Counseling Psychologist, 42, 314–344. doi:10.1177/0011000012461157
6.
FreireP. (1970). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Herder and Herder.
7.
FreireP. (1973). Education for critical consciousness. New York, NY: Seabury Press.
8.
GuichardJ.LenzJ. (2005). Career theory from an international perspective. Career Development Quarterly, 54, 17–28. doi:10.1002/j.2161-0045.2005.tb00137.x
9.
HelmsJ. E. (2003). A pragmatic view of social justice. The Counseling Psychologist, 31, 305–313. doi:10.1177/0011000003253159
10.
InmanA. G. (2006a). Supervisory multicultural competence and its relation to supervisory process and outcome. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 32, 73–85. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2006.tb01589.x
11.
InmanA. G. (2006b). South Asian women: Identities and conflicts. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12, 306–319. doi:10.1037/1099-9809.12.2.306
12.
InmanA. G.ConstantineM. G.LadanyN. (1999). Cultural value conflict: An examination of Asian Indian women’s bicultural experience. In SandhuD. S. (Ed.), Asian and Pacific Islander Americans: Issues and concerns for counseling and psychotherapy (pp. 31–41). Commack, NY: Nova Science.
13.
InmanA. G.KreiderD. E. (2013). Multicultural competence: Psychotherapy practice and supervision. Psychotherapy, 50, 346–350. doi:10.1037/a0032029
14.
InmanA. G.LadanyN.ConstantineM. G.MoranoC. K. (2001). Development and preliminary validation of the cultural values conflict scale for South Asian women. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 48, 17–27. doi:10.1037//0022-0167.48.1.17
15.
InmanA. G.LuuL. P.PendseA. C.CaskieG. I. L. (2015). Graduate trainees’ social justice supports, beliefs, interest, and commitment. The Counseling Psychologist, 43, 875–905. doi:10.1177/0011000015578932
16.
InmanA. G.SchlosserL. Z.LadanyN.HowardE. E.BoydD. L.AltmanA.SteinE. P. (2011). Advisee nondisclosures in doctoral-level advising relationships. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 5, 149–159. doi:10.1037/a0024022
17.
InmanA. G.YehC. JMadan-BahelA.NathS. (2007). Bereavement and coping of South Asian families post 9/11. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 35, 101–115. doi:10.1002/j.2161-1912.2007.tb00053.x
LuuL. P.InmanA. G. (2016). Feminist identity and program characteristics in the development of trainees’ social advocacy. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 31, 1–24. doi:10.1080/09515070.2016.1198887
20.
MoriY.InmanA. G.CaskieG. (2009) Supervising international students: Relationship between acculturation, supervisor multicultural competence, cultural discussions, and supervision satisfaction. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 3, 10–18. doi:10.1037/a0013072
21.
PendseA.InmanA. G. (2017). International student-focused Counseling Research: A 34-year content analysis. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 30, 20–47. doi:10.1080/09515070.2015.1128395
22.
ReynaertW. (2004, June). The dilemma approach. In International Perspectives on Career Development. Symposium conducted at a joint meeting of the International Association for Education and Vocational Guidance and the National Career Development Association, San Francisco, CA.
23.
SoheilianS.InmanA. G. (2009). Middle Eastern Americans: The effects of stigma on attitudes towards counseling. Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 4, 139–158. doi:10.1080/15564900903245766
24.
StanleyC. A.LincolnY. S. (2005). Cross-race faculty mentoring. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 37(2), 44–50. doi:10.3200/CHNG.37.2.44-50
25.
YehC. J.InmanA. G.KimA. B.OkuboY. (2006). Asian American families’ collectivistic coping strategies in response to 9/11. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 12, 134–148. doi:10.1037/1099-9809.12.1.134
