Description
Grounded in trauma-informed approaches, intersectionality theory, and critical race theory, Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy for BIPOC Communities: Decolonizing Mental Health embodies psychotherapeutic practices via anti-racist, anti-oppressive, and culturally responsive paradigms.
Complete with practical case studies, psychoeducational frameworks, and the author’s own inclusion and healing therapy (IHT) model, content from this book inspires practitioners to update their therapeutic competencies to effectively support BIPOC clients.
This book is an essential read for current and future intersectional psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, counsellors, lawyers, educators, and healthcare professionals who actively work with BIPOC communities.
Table of Contents
Introduction to Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy for BIPOC Communities: Decolonizing Mental Health
Part I: Dismantling and Understanding Trauma
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining and Naming Trauma
Chapter 2: Myths and Types of Trauma
Chapter 3: Culturally Responsive Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
Part 2 Deconstructing Systemic Racism
Introduction
Chapter 4: Conceptualizing Racism
Chapter 5: Levels, Forms, and Movements of Racism
Chapter 6: Mental Health Implications and Developing an Antiracist Stance
Part 3 Listening to Intergenerational BIPOC Narratives
Introduction
Narratives by Black, Indigenous, South Asian, Latine, and Asian individuals:
Jamal, Mikom, Prem, Isla, and Yin.
Part 4 Navigating Clinical Interventions: Linking Theory to Practice
Introduction
Chapter 7: Decolonizing Mental Health Practices
Chapter 8: Inclusion and Healing Therapy
Chapter 9: Revisiting BIPOC Narratives
Part 5 Concluding Thoughts and Offerings
Chapter 10: Sustaining Healing through Community Care and Self Care
