This comprehensive handbook provides therapists, social workers, educators, and mental health professionals with effective clinical interventions for working affirmatively with disabled clients and their families.
Using an intersectional and strengths-based perspective, Manasi Shankar brings together interdisciplinary experts to outline the history of the disability community in the United States, their resultant experiences, and best practices in clinically affirmative care. Chapters are authored by disabled scholars, marriage and family therapists, disability activists, and researchers to amplify the voices of disabled experts. Topics include models of disability, ableism, disability in older populations, sexuality, disability and persons of color, moving toward the critical role of marriage and family therapists and the ways they can integrate affirmative approaches into their work.
Filled with case vignettes, this handbook offers clinical applications of treatment strategies as well as pedagogical features for educators to supervise and instruct graduate students in working with disabled clients in therapy. This book aims to inspire therapists to incorporate disability dialogue into clinical practice, deconstructing the fragmentation of disability as outside the scope of marriage and family therapy (MFT).
This text is an essential reading for graduate and licensed marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, counselors, and educators in MFT, counseling, and psychology.
About the Artist
Mariam Paré became a quadriplegic after surviving an act of gun violence at the age of 20. Determined to pursue her passion for art, she relearned how to paint by holding brushes with her mouth, evolving into a distinguished visual artist and mouth-painter. With over two decades of creative experience, Paré is known for her exceptional mouth-painting technique and compelling multimedia works that often explore the disability experience. She is also a proud member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide.
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About the Cover Artwork
Portraits of Spinal Cord Injury: Oppo (2023)
Watercolor on paper
8" x 8"
Painted by mouth
Image Credit
By courtesy of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide.
Section I: History, Law & the Sociopolitical Context of Disability
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Steven T. Licardi, LCSW
2. An Overview of the History of Disability in the United States
Megan C. Carlos, Ph.D.
3. Disability and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S. Legal
System
Solomon Furious Worlds, J.D. and Ellis Scout Cliff
4. Human Variation: Disability Models Explained
Angélica Guevara, Ph.D.
5. Ableism within Academia: Impact on the Lives of Disabled Persons
Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D.
Section II: Contextualizing Disability Through an Intersectional Lens
6. Total Blindness
Catlin Hernandez
7. The Intersection of Older Adulthood, Mental Health, and Disability
Pamela B. Teaster, Ph.D., and Onyinye F Mbanefo, M.S.
8. The Intersection of Race and Disability: Redefining Inclusive Therapeutic
Practice
Angélica Guevara, Ph.D.
9. Intersecting Identities: Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People
Alan Santinele Martino, Ph.D., Melissa Miller, Jordan Parks, and Eleni
Moumos
Section III: Foundations of Disability-Affirmative Therapy
10. Becoming Dyslexic
Catherine Kapphahn
11. Thinking Psychoanalytically about Therapy with Disabled People: The Need
to Begin with Ourselves
Brian Watermeyer, Ph.D.
12. The Counteractive Value of Disability Affirmative Therapy: How
Well-meaning Assumptions (I dont see disability) Impacts Disabled Clients
Katy Evans and Mel Halacre
13. The Critical Role of Marriage and Family Therapists in Disability
Discourses
Kami L. Gallus Ph.D., LMFT, Jennifer L. Jones, Ph.D., Garrett M. Jones, and
Natalie M. Richardson, Ph.D., LMFT
14. Couples Therapy with Disabled Partners: Integrating Disability into
Relational Practice
Rebecca Kammes, Ph.D., LMFT, Madeline Barger, LMFT, and Debra L. Miller,
Ph.D., LCSW
15. Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part I): Historical Foundations
and Philosophical Assumptions
Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC
16. Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part II): Clinical Applications
Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC
17. Accessible Therapy Spaces: Looking Beyond Infrastructure
Toni Saia, Ph.D., CRC and Gabrielle Ficchi Ph.D., LPC, LPCS, CRC
Section IV: Clinical Supervision and Program Development
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Pramod Shankar
19. Addressing The Missing Piece: Developing Inclusive Programmatic
Structures, Modules, and Coursework
Brittany A. Williams, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, Derek, X. Seward, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC,
and Kahyen Shin
20. Multi-disciplinary Collaboration, Representation, and Ethical Research of
Disability Experiences
Lydia Qualls, Ph.D., Lyndon Frommer, and Ashley Shew, Ph.D.
21. Clinical Supervision of Disability-Specific Cases
Shakeela Gray, LGPC, NCC, Brittany A. Williams Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, and Briana
Gaines, Ph.D., LPC, CCTP
22. Disability Justice and the Person-of-the-Therapist Framework
James Tillett, Ph.D., Jody Russon, Ph.D., and Shalini Srinivasan, M.A.
Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., is a clinician, educator, and scholar who specializes in disability-affirmative systemic therapy. She is the founder of Therapy at Bay a private practice based in the San Francisco Bay area and provides national and international training on systemic therapy with disabled clients and families.
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