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.

Taking off the Mask: Breaking the Silence—The Art of Naming Racism in the Therapy Room

Taking off the Mask: Breaking the Silence—The Art of Naming Racism in the Therapy Room

Taking off the mask: Breaking the silence—the art of naming racism in the therapy room
Larry Jin (Kwok Hung)Lee

I'd rather not see an Asian doctor. My experience with them is that they are cold and unfeeling. You never know what they're thinking. But you, you're okay.

—A client

In my almost 20 years of clinical practice and supervision of trainees, I have heard countless comments, such as the above example, that have evoked what I think of as an internal wince. Most of these comments have gone unanswered primarily because I could not pull up any templates from my training that prepared me to respond to these upsetting encounters. On most of these ...

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