With vision, determination and openness to collaboration, the Society of Indian Psychologists (SIP), led by elder leader, Carolyn Barcus, PhD, began a process that culminated in SIP’s ground-breaking work, “Commentary on the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct,” authored by Melinda Garcia, PhD, with the assistance of Melissa Tehee, PhD, JD. SIP’s visionary leadership and collaborative inclusiveness was also seminal in the establishment of the decade long Ethics Committee and Ethnic Psychological Associations (EPAs) Joint Ethics Initiative (Initiative) at the intersection of ethics and culture.
The origins of the Ethics Committee/Ethnic Psychological Associations Initiative began with an invitation to members of the Ethics Committee, including Linda M. Forrest, EdD, and Janet Thomas, PsyD, and Ethics Office staff, to attend SIP’s 2011 Annual Meeting in Logan, Utah. There SIP began an open dialog with the Ethics Committee concerning the ways in which the APA Ethics Code hindered culturally-sound practices within indigenous communities. SIP determined that a commentary founded on the stories of individual SIP members in their authentic voices would most clearly illuminate the ethical challenges faced by American Indian and Alaskan Native psychologists working within Indigenous communities while honoring their culture. SIP requested that the APA Ethics Committee provide consultation and support as it compiled the stories and disseminated the commentary. SIP also asked the Ethics Committee and Ethics Office 2011 attendees to honor the connection and demonstrate continuity in the relationship. Over time, this relationship nurtured the development of annual programming at APA convention by individuals representing the various EPAs focused on work at the intersection of ethics and culture, while collaboratively discussing the ways in which the APA Ethics Code hindered work within the various EPA communities that was fully integrated with culture. Through the years, SIP leaders, such as Carolyn Morris, PhD, Jacque Gray, PhD, Melinda Garcia, PhD, Gayle Morse, PhD, Art Blume, PhD, and Kee Straits, PhD, and many others, provided leadership and support and participated in these critical discussions offered at APA’s conventions. As a direct result of SIP’s leadership, there is significantly greater awareness of the specific cultural needs of communities of color, the importance for all psychologists to ensure culturally-competent practice, and the critical need to incorporate concepts of culture and diversity and include collectivist viewpoints, within any future Ethics Code as critical guidance for all psychologists.
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Therefore, in recognition of SIP’s vision of a more culturally-informed Ethics Code that honors the knowledge from communities of color regarding ethical care, the foundational invitation to the Ethics Committee to actively participate in discussions of culture and ethics, the leadership and incredible contributions provided throughout the past 10 years, and the unwavering commitment to an understanding of the connection between ethics and culture, in celebration of the milestones achieved and the formal conclusion of this extraordinary collaboration, I, Jennifer F. Kelly, PhD, 2021 APA president, honor the Society of Indian Psychologists, with this Presidential Citation.
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