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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.
Toward a Liberation Pedagogy: Creating a Safe Environment for Diversity Conversations in the Classroom
Toward a Liberation Pedagogy: Creating a Safe Environment for Diversity Conversations in the Classroom
When I began work as a faculty member in family therapy, I was thrilled. At last, I was fulfilling one of my childhood dreams. But as a child I did not give any thought to how my color would affect my dream, because in my dream I envisioned myself teaching people who looked like me. Everyone was Black, so color was not a concern. When I received the MFT teaching appointment, I thought hard about what my being a woman of color meant for the university, which was predominantly White, and my department, which was exclusively White. ...
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