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Table 1 Semi-structured interview protocol

From: Australian mental health care practitioners’ construing of non-White and White people: implications for cultural competence and therapeutic alliance

Interview questions

1. How would you define “non-White” people?

2. How would you define “White” people?

3. Which definition do you prefer?

4. Why do you prefer the definition you have chosen? (Continue asking “why” questions following the participant’s response until no new responses emerge)

5. Have you ever heard of the term “Whiteness”?

6. What do you think it means?

7. With that in mind, how might you define non-Whiteness?

8. Which definition do you prefer?

9. Why do you prefer the definition you have chosen? (Continue asking “why” questions following the participant’s response until no new responses emerge)

10. How would you say non-White people are portrayed in Australia?

11. How would you say White people are portrayed in Australia?

12. Which portrayal do you prefer?

13. Why is that? (Continue asking “why” questions following the participant’s response until no new responses emerge)

14. How would you say non-White people are treated in Australia?

15. How would you say White people are treated in Australia?

16. Which treatment do you prefer?

17. Why is that? (Continue asking “why” questions following the participant’s response until no new responses emerge)

  1. *Where appropriate, ask the participant what impact their construing have on engaging with non-White and White clients
  2. **Where appropriate, ask the participant what strategies they use to engage with non-White and White clients to support therapeutic outcomes
  3. At the end of the interview, all participants were asked about their experience being interviewed by a non-White person and how this might have influenced their responses or response style