This important book brings together race, mental health and applied psychology, unpacking these areas from differing perspectives and offering new insights in the support of training and development of practice.
The ability to work with issues of diversity and intersectionality within psychology is vital. Contributors with experience in counselling psychology and applied psychology from across varied social contexts and professional settings reframe and challenge familiar concepts in light of movements to decolonise the curriculum and decolonise psychology and therapy. The chapters offer clinical vignettes, lived experiences and reflective questions to provoke the reader’s thinking and engage with curiosity and sensitivity around cultural bias, discrimination, language, and the evolution of terminologies. This book captures the relationship between the ethos of counselling psychology and race, offering a much-needed guide for how to encompass race and racialised experiences in the training and practice of psychology. Rooted in the UK context but applicable more widely, contributions cover training, supervision, ethical practice, racial trauma, bias and diagnosis, and politics, as well as perspectives and approaches in practice at the intersection of race and gender, age, neurodiversity, sexuality, and spirituality.
This is a key resource for the continued development of in-training and experienced psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as other practitioners within the mental health and allied professions. It will also be of use to students on clinical training programmes and courses such as applied psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy.
This important book brings together race, mental health and applied psychology, unpacking these areas from differing perspectives and offering new insights in the support of training and development of practice.
List of figures and tables, About the editors, Contributors, Preface,
Acknowledgements, PART
1. AT THE PERCEIVED INCIPIENT,
1. Frameworks,
2.
Training,
3. Developing super-vision in a colour-blind world,
4. Ethics and
ethical practice, PART
2. LANDSCAPE,
5. Mental health,
6. Racial trauma,
7.
Bias and diagnosis,
8. The impact of systemic racism,
9. Race and politics,
PART
3. PERSPECTIVES IN PRACTICE,
10. The role of intergenerational trauma
and adultification in children and young people,
11. Rethinking the way we
work with Black men,
12. Working with women of colour,
13. Working with older
adults of colour,
14. Social hierarchies and societal values: Implications
for Black queer men in the UK, PART
4. APPROACHES IN PRACTICE,
15. Why I
developed mindfulness calligraphy enhance therapy?,
16. Race and
neurodiversity: Understanding intersectionality and privilege My story,
17.
Faith, religion and spirituality, Postscript, Index
Yetunde Ade-Serrano is a chartered and registered Practitioner Counselling Psychologist who works primarily in independent practice. She also works as an Expert Witness in Family Courts and as a Domestic Violence Risk Assessor. Dr Ade-Serrano is a UK-based practitioner.
Ohemaa Nkansa-Dwamena is a registered and chartered Counselling Psychologist and an Associate Professor in Counselling Psychology at City, University of London, UK. She works primarily in private practice with former clinical positions in NHS, forensic, higher education, and third sector settings.
