Full Description
This book shows therapists how they can impact their communities by engaging their fellow citizens in addressing broad-based health and social problems.
The greatest untapped resources for improving our health and social well-being are the knowledge, energy, and first-hand wisdom of the individuals, families, and communities who have dealt with challenges in their everyday lives. Mental health professionals can learn how to leverage these relationships to enact broader, community-wide change, using practices that fall outside of traditional methods of mental health service delivery.
This book presents insights from the authors' two decades of work in the citizen health care model, in which they have partnered with leaders from a wide range of communities on initiatives designed to improve health and remove social barriers. Readers will learn big-picture strategies for identifying and developing community-level initiatives, from disease prevention to broader cultural challenges, as well as common problems that arise when doing this work.
Includes in-depth discussions of successful, real-world programs co-created by therapists and community members, including:
diabetes education
anti-smoking campaigns
political depolarization
police interactions
Contents
Part I. Overview of Citizen Therapist Work
Introduction: What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?
Chapter . Foundations of Citizen Therapist Work
Part II. Health Care Projects
Chapter 2. Family Education Diabetes Series: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic in an American Indian Community
Chapter 3. Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction
Chapter 4. The Como Clinic Health Club: Activating Citizen Patient Leaders
Part III. Family and Cultural Change Projects
Chapter 5. Putting Family First: Resisting the Pull of Overscheduling Kids
Chapter . The Citizen Father Project
Chapter 7. Braver Angels: Counteracting Political Polarization
Part IV. Projects Dealing With Race
Chapter 8. The Relationships Project With Young Black Men
Chapter 9. The Police and Black Men Project
Part V. Becoming and Succeeding as a Citizen Therapist
Chapter . Case Studies in Other Citizen Therapist Work
With Mark Meier, Marisol L. Meyer, Alexis R. Franklin, Ceewin N. Louder, Joelle Dorsett, Marie Boursiquot White, Guerda Nicolas, and Brooke Miller
Chapter . Maintaining Citizen Health Care Projects Over Time
Chapter 2. Funding and Evaluation in Citizen Health Care
Chapter 3. Getting Started as a Citizen Therapist
Chapter 4. The Citizen Therapist as a Person and as a Professional
Afterword
References
Index
About the Authors
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