Racial Trauma in Black Clients: Effective Practice for Clinicians
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 188
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 98006
- ISBN 13 : 9781462556595
- ISBN 10 : 1462556590
Reviews and Endorsements
This book reminds us that for Black people to heal the ruptures caused by chronic exposure to racism, cultural self-affirmation is only one side of the coin. The flip side is recovery from trauma and intergenerational injury. This book highlights the value that culturally informed and competent therapeutic practice can have for healing the impact of racial trauma on mind, body, and spirit. With astute analyses and compelling assertions, this book is a 'must read' for psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, and all allied mental health specialists who engage in treating people of African descent.
Thomas Parham, PhD, President, California State University Dominguez Hills
Jones-Damis and Moore have provided a highly valuable and practically applicable tool for mental health clinicians across a range of disciplines and levels of experience. The book draws on current research on racial trauma and effective practice with Black clients. Building on fundamental aspects of counseling and psychotherapy, the authors debunk the notion that racial trauma counseling is a specialty practice. As a racial trauma scholar and a practicing psychotherapist, I have no doubt that clinicians will greatly benefit from this volume, and, in turn, the Black clients they work with will gain from the wisdom and healing found in these pages.
Alex L. Pieterse, PhD, Department of Counseling, Educational and Developmental Psychology, Boston College; Director, Institute for the Study of Race and Culture
Jones-Damis and Moore have provided a highly valuable and practically applicable tool for mental health clinicians across a range of disciplines and levels of experience. The book draws on current research on racial trauma and effective practice with Black clients. Building on fundamental aspects of counseling and psychotherapy, the authors debunk the notion that racial trauma counseling is a specialty practice. As a racial trauma scholar and a practicing psychotherapist, I have no doubt that clinicians will greatly benefit from this volume, and, in turn, the Black clients they work with will gain from the wisdom and healing found in these pages.
Alex L. Pieterse, PhD, Department of Counseling, Educational and Developmental Psychology, Boston College; Director, Institute for the Study of Race and Culture