Counseling American Minorities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Donald R. Atkinson is Professor Emeritus in the combined psychology program (Gevirtz Graduate School of Education) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has over 30 years of teaching experience in such courses as Social and Cultural Foundations of Diversity, Multicultural Counseling, Ethics, and Gender Issues. Several reviews of research have identified him as the most prolific researcher ever on multicultural issues, and in 2001 he received the Lifetime Research Award from Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) of the American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of Divisions 17 and 45 of the APA.  Dr. Atkinson earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1970.