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Decolonizing Trauma Healing: Toward a Humble, Culturally Responsive Practice

Decolonizing Trauma Healing: Toward a Humble, Culturally Responsive Practice

Brown, Laura S.

Paperback

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1433840634
ISBN13: 9781433840630
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: Nov 12 2024
Pages: 387
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.15 Depth: 8.99
Language: English

This book offers a critical examination of the field of trauma work using a decolonial lens, recentering narratives and approaches to healing in a more inclusive, culturally responsive way than that offered by dominant Eurocentric approaches.

This is an excellent resource based on how it reframes trauma through a decolonial, culturally responsive lens rather than relying on Eurocentric psychological models. This book invites us to step back into a broader, more systemic approach, grounded in humility and sensitivity. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in expanding their understanding of how to work with trauma. -- Doody's Reviews

As trauma is a universal experience, a colonized paradigm for responding to trauma re-introduces problematic dynamics of domination and subjugation that are inimical to healing. Decolonizing Trauma Healing offers a new paradigm for how psychologists and other mental health providers can learn to properly understand and work with people whose lives, psyches, and souls have been damaged by exposure to trauma.

Dr. Laura S. Brown introduces her decolonial, humble, culturally responsive (DHCR) model of trauma healing practice. It urges readers to abandon the concept of cultural competence and other approaches that maintain a Eurocentric perspective, in favor of a decolonial method that re-centers the sufferer's lived experience, with an understanding of the subtle ways in which the colonial mindset underlies the causes of trauma as well as our traditional conception of trauma healing. As a member of a colonized and marginalized culture, as well as in her work as a trauma healer, Dr. Brown serves as an inspiration for readers who want to understand why the traditional approach to trauma care has been insufficient, and all those who are ready to do the work needed to bring the field to a new level of clarity and rigor.

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