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The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy

The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy

Fish, Jefferson M.

Hardcover

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1441975756
ISBN13: 9781441975751
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 19 2010
Pages: 179
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Is our society color-blind? Trans-racial? Post-racial? And what-if anything-should this mean to professionals in clinical practice with diverse clients?

The ambitious volume The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy probes these questions, compelling readers to look differently at their clients (and themselves), and offering a practical framework for more effective therapy. By tracing the racial folk taxonomies of eight cultures in the Americas and the Caribbean, the author elegantly defines race as a fluid construct, dependent on local social, political, and historical context for meaning but meaningless in the face of science. This innovative perspective informs the rest of the book, which addresses commonly held assumptions about problem behavior and the desire to change, and presents a social-science-based therapy model, applicable to a wide range of current approaches, that emphasizes both cultural patterns and client uniqueness. Among the highlights of the coverage:

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