Even within counseling psychology's multicultural literature, attention to persons of Arab descent remains limited. Despite counseling psychologists' goal of becoming more multiculturally proficient, the dearth of systematic empirical research on the counseling of Arab Americans is glaring. This exploratory consensual qualitative research (CQR) investigation analyzed interview data from 11Arab American women to explore their experiences at the intersections of ethnic identity and gender. In addition to describing a need to be hyperaware and responsive to societal and familial expectations, participants reported believing that they did not fit American society's view of Arab American women. They also conveyed feelings of invisibility and invalidation due to racial ambiguity, and lack of census recognition. The findings affirm the need to increase psychological focus on Arab American women to facilitate the multiculturally competent practice of counseling psychologists working with this population. Public Significance StatementThe invisibility of Arab American women in the psychological literature has allowed for the spread of misconceptions about this ethnic minority group. This qualitative study presents the experiences of 11 Arab American women at the crossroads of gender, ethnicity, and religiosity in their own voices. It also provides practitioners working with this population with guidelines to deepen their multicultural competence.

Psychology's traditional medical-model approach to poverty has left the emotional impact of classism relatively unexplored. When classism and social exclusion become the focus, what options for intervention and service exist for applied psychologists? In this article, youth participatory action research (YPAR) is presented as growthful, anticlassist, community-based practice for psychologists. The authors suggest that YPAR collaborations comprise activities by which psychologists and trainees can partner with young people to refute the silencing and social exclusion that are among the defining elements of classism, and they illustrate this contention with a case example of a year-long, school-based YPAR project. What is the significance of this article for the general public?The harmful impact of poverty includes the impact of classist biases, which function to exclude and devalue the experiences of the poor. Youth participatory action research projects offer an opportunity for professionals and young people to work together to identify community needs and allow the voices of young people in poor communities to be heard.

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In this article, we present a project that explored the application of an established qualitative methodology to a novel source of data: microblog postings on the social media platform Twitter, also known as tweets. In particular, we adapted Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR; Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997) for use in this analysis. The coinciding aim of the project was to study the cultural impasses that seemed to characterize U.S. society surrounding the 2016 presidential election. Publicly available tweets bearing the hashtag #2A were selected for examination; this hashtag indicated the user’s intention to direct the posting to the attention of Twitter users in the context of the Second Amendment, which refers to citizens’ right to bear arms. The article describes the process by which CQR was modified for this use, profiles the exploratory findings, and present suggestions for subsequent similar research undertakings.

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