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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.
Kum Ba Yah1: The Relevance of Family Systems Theory for Clinicians and Clients of African Descent
Kum Ba Yah1: The Relevance of Family Systems Theory for Clinicians and Clients of African Descent
Family systems therapy offers a culturally syntonic approach for intervention with clients of African descent and for therapists of African descent working cross-culturally. Yet, Black therapists are underrepresented in the field. Clearly, this is attributable to macro systems issues such as institutional racism and class privilege. The current discourse and debate regarding the best means to address greater diversity in education, particularly higher education, is applicable to family systems training as well. Furthermore, Black clinicians who might be candidates for family systems training have little opportunity to benefit from the experience and perspectives ...
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