Black Identities + White Therapies

Black Identities + White Therapies
Author: Divine Charura
Publisher: Pccs Books
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781910919897

This vibrant new book springs from the continued failure of the counselling and psychotherapy profession to adequately prepare trainees to meet the needs of today's multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society. The editors, both highly experienced trainers and academics, have gathered together here a group of new and established writers who draw on personal and professional experiences to present an array of fresh ideas and approaches. Their aim is to inform training curricula that would more adequately prepare therapy students to respond sensitively and in culturally appropriate ways to clients of diverse cultural and racial identities. Each chapter presents a challenge to all therapeutic practitioners, whatever their specialist role, to attend to and reflect on their personal and professional attitudes and behaviours in relation to clients of all heritages and origins. Issues addressed include unconscious privilege, 'othering', micro-aggressions, broaching, racism, discrimination, the search for meaning, identity complexity, intersectional understanding, heritage, biases and projections, trauma, intergenerational trauma, introjections, projection and decolonisation of the curriculum. This book is a wake-up call to the profession to develop more inclusive models of theory and practice, and to every counsellor, psychotherapist and counselling psychologist to review their professional practice and ensure a better fit between the aspirations and theories of their professional calling and the needs of our multi-ethnic, multiracial and multicultural society today.

Racial Identity, White Counsellors and Therapists

Racial Identity, White Counsellors and Therapists
Author: Gill Tuckwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2002
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This work explores the subject of racial identity and encourages readers to think freely about racial issues and to explore their own racial identity. Written from an integrative perspective, it aims to be permission-giving and to enable readers to overcome the constraints of political correctness. With a particular focus on white identity, the book challenges white therapists to develop their understanding of a relatively unexplored field. The author believes that self-awareness is an essential element of competency as a therapist, and she challenges all white therapists to be aware of what it means to be white, and how this influences the therapy process.

Managing Microaggressions

Managing Microaggressions
Author: Monnica T. Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-06-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0190875240

Microaggressions have been identified as a common and troubling cause of low retention and poor psychotherapy outcomes for people of color. All therapists want and intend to be helpful to their clients, but many unknowingly committing microaggressions due to unconscious biases and misconceptions about people from ethnic and racial minority groups. Managing Microaggressions is intended for mental health clinicians who want to be more effective in their use of evidence-based practices with people of color. Many well-intentioned clinicians lack the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively engage those who are ethnoracially different. This book discusses the theoretical basis of the problem (microaggressions), the cognitive-behavioral mechanisms by which the problem is maintained, and how to remedy the problem using CBT principles, with a focus on the role of the therapist. Not only will readers learn how to avoid offending or harming their clients, they will also be better equipped to help clients navigate microaggressions they encounter in their daily lives. Managing Microaggressions will endow clinicians with a clear understanding of these behaviors and the errors that underpin them, leading to more successful therapy.

Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy

Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Author: Dwight Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2021-02-02
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1000340392

Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy presents an in-depth understanding of the role of privilege, and of the unconscious experience of privilege and difference within the world of counselling and psychotherapy. To address the absence of the exploration of the unconscious experience of privilege within counselling and psychotherapy, the book not only presents an exploration of intersectional difference, but also discusses the deeper unconscious understanding of difference, and how privilege plays a role in the construction of otherness. It does so by utilising material from both within the world of psychotherapy, and from the fields of post-colonial theory, feminist discourse, and other theoretical areas of relevance. The book also offers an exploration and understanding of intersectionality and how this impacts upon our conscious and unconscious exploration of privilege and otherness. With theoretically underpinned, and inherently practical psychotherapeutic case studies, this book will serve as a guidebook for counsellors and psychotherapists.

Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process

Black Issues in the Therapeutic Process
Author: Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2009
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This book examines issues that are specific to counselling people of African and Caribbean heritage. Exploring the hurt of racism and inherited effects of slavery, it provides 'therapeutic tasks' to offer practical advice for all students, trainees and practitioners.

Tapestry of Cultural Issues in Art Therapy

Tapestry of Cultural Issues in Art Therapy
Author: Anna R. Hiscox
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781853025761

Professionals engaged in art therapy discuss aspects of practice which are affected by an environment of increasing cultural diversity. Some contributions examine problems faced by members of ethnic minorities who are caught between assertion of their cultural identities and assimilation into a different social milieu.

Experiences in Relatedness

Experiences in Relatedness
Author: Colin Lago
Publisher: Pccs
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1999
Genre: Client-centered psychotherapy
ISBN: 9781898059233

Brings together a collection of writings by authors who have participated in and with groups over a period of thirty years, using the person-centred approach.

Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client

Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client
Author: Roy Moodley
Publisher: Pccs Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

Analyses Carl Rogers' own demonstration films in order to explore issues of race and culture within the person-centred model.

Love and Therapy

Love and Therapy
Author: Divine Charura
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2018-03-29
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 042991590X

Sigmund Freud noted the importance of love in the healing of the human psyche. So many of life's distresses have their origins in lack of love, disruption of love, or trauma. People naturally seek love in their lives to feel complete. Is therapy a substitute for love? Or is it love by another name? This important book looks at the place of love in therapy and whether it is the curative factor. The authors continually stress, however, that within psychotherapy both ethical and professional boundaries should govern this 'Love' at all times in order for it to be experienced as healing and therapeutic. This book offers explorations of the complexity of love from different modalities: psychoanalytic, humanistic, person-centred, psychosexual, family and systemic, transpersonal, existential, and transcultural. The discussions challenge therapists and other allied professionals to think about their practice, ethics, and boundaries.

Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents

Narrative Therapies with Children and Adolescents
Author: Craig Smith
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2000-03-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781572305762

Showcasing approaches as creative and playful as young clients themselves, the book presents therapy as a dialogue of discovery. Through transcripts and compelling case examples, contributors illuminate how drama, art, play, and humor can be used effectively to engage with children of different ages, and to honor their idiosyncratic language, knowledge, and perspective.