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Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists is the first book to address the training, academic, and professional experiences of ethnic minority therapists. Using real cases, narratives, and biographical material, each chapter motivates the reader to ponder and challenge how issues related to mental health intersect with race/ethnicity within a broader diversity framework. The contributors represent various mental health disciplines, and they all write from a systemic perspective on therapy cases, theory, new models, and research. The authors present powerful narratives of how their personal and professional experiences inform each other.
The Process of Integrating Language, Context, and Meaning: The Voices of Bilingual and Bicultural Therapists
The Process of Integrating Language, Context, and Meaning: The Voices of Bilingual and Bicultural Therapists
Many mental health professionals are currently faced with the challenge of translating the knowledge and training they receive into something that is useful and applicable when working with people from diverse cultures. The primary goal of this chapter is to illuminate some of the struggles we have had in trying to explore how our clinical training has influenced our cultural and professional identities. In addition, we address how we perceive our level of competence in doing therapy in our less dominant language (Spanish or English) and ...
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