Comment on Cory, 2021: “White privilege in clinical neuropsychology: an invisible ‘knapsack’ in need of unpacking,”

Abstract

The preservation of the field of neuropsychology as an evidenced-based discipline requires immediate, disruptive, organization-level actions to place assessment methods and research paradigms that reflect the racial, cultural, and linguistic diversity of our society at the heart of our education, training and practice models. In this comment on the Cory article on white privilege, three such concrete organizational level actions are articualted, including adoption of Relevance 2050 learning objectives, a revision of the Houston Conference Guidelines to integrate multiracial/multilingual/multiculturalism within every training experience and competency area, and a pledge from every major national neuropsychology organization to dedicate a percentage of our yearly budgets to directly fund multicultural/multiracial/multilingual norms and cultural competence development.

Keywords:

• White privilege
• neuropsychology
• race
• multicultural
• professional organizations

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to acknowledge Anita Sim (Chair) and Anthony Y. Stringer of the AACN Relevance 2050 Committee, as well as Margaret Lanca for their review and suggestions for this paper.