E-raamat: Cultural Humility and Social Justice Approach to Psychotherapy: Seven Applied Guidelines for Evidence-Based Practice

"Before I jump into introducing the topics and motivation for this book, I think it is helpful to provide a sense of who I am, personally and professionally, and what perspective I bring because of my own intersectional identities and experiences. I identify as a woman of color, South Asian in my ethnicity and Saint Lucian as my nationality, immigrant, cis-gendered, straight, and able-bodied. I trained in traditional models of cognitive behavioral therapy during my graduate training at Boston University,specializing in anxiety-related disorders and substance use disorders, through additional training in the VA system during practicum and my internship at Brown Alpert Medical School. I have been fortunate to work with clients, therapists, trainees, and colleagues from a wide diversity of backgrounds both nationally and globally within the contexts of psychotherapy provision and clinical training in evidence-based approaches. My research has grown and morphed over time (similar to my cultural awareness and competency as a therapist), originating in traditional experimental and randomized controlled trial work, and landing squarely on my current preferred interests of community-based research that focuses on addressing health disparities for a range of diverse communities using a social justice and cross-cultural lens"--

Achieving effectiveness of evidence-based psychotherapy across a diversity of patients continues to be a foremost concern, and many training programs and professional societies in clinical psychology are at a loss as to how to systematically approach this issue. In A Cultural Humility and Social Justice Approach to Psychotherapy, Anu Asnaani provides an applied guide for working with clients from a diverse set of intersectional identities within the context of evidence-based practice. Drawing on her extensive clinical experience with a range of clients and therapy protocols/approaches, her active and ongoing research program in addressing health disparities, and considerable work in training clinicians across practice settings to incorporate diversity perspectives into treatment, Asnaani presents practical ways to engage in culturally humble, socially just clinical practice. Guidelines are derived from the consensus across published literature and established practice, and cover
the full trajectory of treatment, from assessment through to relapse prevention; the book further offers some considerations for adopting these principles within the context of clinical supervision. Suitable for a broad range of mental health practitioners providing evidence-based clinical care for individuals with psychological disorders, this book provides worksheets, reflection exercises, and short-hand figures, making these concepts as easy-to-use in clinical practice as possible.