Full Description
Understanding and addressing the impact of racial trauma is vital for providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. This book explores how racial stressors affect all aspects of Black clients' lives and offers powerful ways to support healing. Therapists and counselors will gain tools for approaching--rather than avoiding--the topic of race in individual therapy and in family, school, and community contexts. The book discusses how to incorporate aspects of racial trauma into assessment and case conceptualization; validate clients' pain as well as their strengths; and adapt evidence-based treatments to overcome cultural gaps. It presents extensive case examples; dos and don'ts; and self-care strategies for therapists of any background. Instructive features include end-of-chapter takeaway points, bolded key terms, and an end-of-book glossary.
Contents
Foreword, Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Preface
I. Racial Trauma in Clinical Settings
1. Where Do We Begin?: Racial Trauma and Thinking Beyond Diagnosis
2. Thinking Outside the Box: Treatment Adaptations to Address Racial Trauma
3. Awareness in Action: Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Treatment Seeking
4. Preparing the Next Generation: Culturally Responsive Supervision
II. Racial Trauma in Community Settings
5. Pen or Pencil: Addressing Racial Trauma in Schools
6. Black and Blue: Working with Law Enforcement
7. The Talk: Helping Parents and Children with Racial Trauma
III. Healing from Racial Trauma
8. Healer, Heal Me: Healing Clients from Racial Trauma
9. Healer, Heal Thyself: Vicarious Racial Trauma and Self-Care
Conclusion: Summing It All Up
Glossary
References
Index
