Racial Trauma in Black Clients: Effective Practice for Clinicians
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : March 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 188
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 98006
- ISBN 13 : 9781462556595
- ISBN 10 : 1462556590
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Understanding and addressing the impact of racial trauma is vital for providing culturally responsive, trauma-informed care. This book explores how racial stressors affect all aspects of Black clients' lives and offers powerful ways to support healing. Therapists and counselors will gain tools for approaching--rather than avoiding--the topic of race in individual therapy and in family, school, and community contexts. The book discusses how to incorporate aspects of racial trauma into assessment and case conceptualization; validate clients' pain as well as their strengths; and adapt evidence-based treatments to overcome cultural gaps. It presents extensive case examples; dos and don'ts; and self-care strategies for therapists of any background. Instructive features include end-of-chapter takeaway points, bolded key terms, and an end-of-book glossary.
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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
Table of Contents
Foreword by Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Preface
Part I - Racial Trauma in Clinical Settings
1. Where Do We Begin?: Racial Trauma and Thinking Beyond Diagnosis
2. Thinking Outside the Box: Treatment Adaptations to Address Racial Trauma
3. Awareness in Action: Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Treatment Seeking
4. Preparing the Next Generation: Culturally Responsive Supervision
Part II - Racial Trauma in Community Settings
5. Pen or Pencil: Addressing Racial Trauma in Schools
6. Black and Blue: Working with Law Enforcement
7. The Talk: Helping Parents and Children with Racial Trauma
Part III - Healing from Racial Trauma
8. Healer, Heal Me: Healing Clients from Racial Trauma
9. Healer, Heal Thyself: Vicarious Racial Trauma and Self-Care
Conclusion: Summing It All Up
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author(s)
Jennifer R. Jones-Damis, PsyD, is Director of the Counseling Center at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is an active participant with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), particularly on the Schools Committee and the Justice Consortium Committee. Dr. Jones-Damis’s research interests focus on understanding and addressing traumatic stress and racial trauma in individuals and systems. She holds positions on the state and national boards of the Association of Black Psychologists.
Kelly N. Moore, PsyD, is Director of the Center for Psychological Services in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She also has a private practice providing mental health treatment, training and consultation. Dr. Moore's clinical foci are trauma, anxiety, and perinatal disorders, and she consults and trains professionals and graduate students on culturally responsive supervision, racial trauma, and the influence of culture on the manifestation of mental health challenges.
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