Voices of Color First-Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists [Paperback]

Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists 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.Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists 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.Chapter 1: Introduction - Mudita Rastogi and Elizabeth Wieling
Section I: Identity and Professional Development of Therapists of Color
Chapter 2: Emerging Identity: An Asian Indian Female Psychologist's Perspective - Monika Sharma
Chapter 3: Our Stories: Convergence of the Language, Professional, and Personal Identities of Three Latino Therapists - Luis Antonio Rivas, Edward A. Delgado-Romero, and Kelly Ramon Ozambela
Chapter 4: When Turtle Met Rabbit: Native Family Systems - Janet M. Derrick
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