Voices of Color: First-Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority TherapistsVoices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists/strong 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. |
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Contents
Identity and Professional | 11 |
The Relevance of Family Systems | 16 |
Convergence of the Language | 23 |
Native Family Systems 133 | 43 |
Ethnicity and Race in | 65 |
Breaking the Silence | 91 |
Therapists | 117 |
Creating a Safe | 135 |
International Academic Sojourners in | 211 |
Developing a Systemic | 233 |
Black Women Victims and Perpetrators | 255 |
Theory for Clinicians and Clients of African Descent | 277 |
Family Therapy From a Hindu Indian Worldview | 297 |
Developing Culturally | 313 |
The Need | 335 |
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Combating Racism | 155 |
The Process of Integrating Language Context | 189 |
About the Editors | 377 |
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