Integration of race, culture and assessment; Racial identity theory, research and practice; Racial and cultural factors in education; Test fairness in educational and occupational testing; Race, culture and trauma and health outcomes; Intersectional invisibility theory and racism; Transcultural Psychiatry
Professor Emeritus Janet E. Helms was previously the Augustus Long Professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology and Director of the Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture at md传媒国产剧 College. She is past president of the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17 of the American Psychological Association [APA]).聽 Dr. Helms is a Fellow in Division 17 (Counseling Psychology), Division 45 (Ethnic Diversity), and Division 35 (Psychology of Women) of the APA.聽 In addition, she is a member of the Association of Black Psychologists, the American Psychological Society, and the American Educational Research Association.
Dr. Helms has served on the Commission for the Recognition of Specialties and Subspecialties, the Joint Committee on Testing Practices, and the APA Committee on Psychological Tests and Assessments, and she provided expert testimony to the Supreme Court in the case of Ricci v Destefano.聽 Her service on editorial boards include the Psychological Assessment Journal and the Journal of Counseling Psychology.聽 She has authored or co-authored nearly 100 empirical and theoretical articles and books on the topics of racial identity and cultural influences on assessment and counseling practice.
Her books include聽聽(Cognella Press) and (with Donelda Cook)聽Using Race and Culture in Counseling Psychotherapy: Theory and Process聽(MA: Allyn & Bacon).
Dr. Helms鈥檚 work has been acknowledged with awards that include the national Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for mentoring students, an engraved brick in Iowa State University鈥檚 Plaza of Heroines, and the 鈥淒istinguished Career Contributions to Research鈥 Award from the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45), the American Psychological Association鈥檚 Awards for 鈥淒istinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology鈥 (2006) and the Award for 鈥淒istinguished Contributions to Research in Public Policy鈥 (2008).聽 She was a recipient of the Association of Black Psychologists鈥 2007 Award for Distinguished Psychologist.聽 In 1991, she was the first annual recipient of the 鈥淛anet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Professional Psychology.鈥澛 This award was inaugurated in her honor by Columbia University Teachers College.聽 Dr. Helms was the recipient of the 2002 Leona Tyler Award awarded by Division 17 in recognition of an outstanding research career.
More recently, Dr. Helms was the recipient of the 2017-2018 Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award from the Society of Counseling Psychology (Division 17, of the American Psychological Association), the 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award from APA's Society for the Psychological Study of Culture Ethnicity, and Race, and the APA/APF Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Public Interest.聽 Additionally, she delivered the American Psychological Foundation's 2019 Arthur W. Staats Lecture on Unifying Psychology.