
On Becoming a Racially Sensitive Therapist
Race and Clinical Practice
Kenneth V. Hardy(Editor)
WW Norton & Co (Publisher)
Published on 6. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-324-08249-1 (ISBN)
Description
Claims of colour blindness and the insistence that all clients are essentially the same have contributed to a dearth of knowledge and understanding regarding the delivery of racially sensitive treatment. For many clinicians, addressing issues of race in therapy mirrors the same discomfort that permeates most of our efforts to discuss it outside of treatment. Yet providing racially sensitive therapy, as well as possessing the clinical acumen to address complex issues of race and culture, is vital to competent contemporary practice. So where does one begin?
With contributions from experts across the field, this book provides a comprehensive roadmap to achieving this lofty goal. While it identifies important skills, techniques and strategies that are necessary for culturally competent practice, it also invites clinicians to consider that the process of becoming a racially sensitive therapist is one that commences with racial self-examination, self-interrogation and personal transformation.
With contributions from experts across the field, this book provides a comprehensive roadmap to achieving this lofty goal. While it identifies important skills, techniques and strategies that are necessary for culturally competent practice, it also invites clinicians to consider that the process of becoming a racially sensitive therapist is one that commences with racial self-examination, self-interrogation and personal transformation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-324-08249-1 (9781324082491)
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05/2025
W. W. Norton & Company
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Person
Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is President of the Eikenberg Academy for Social Justice and Clinical and Organizational Consultant for the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in NYC. Dr. Hardy provides workshops, training, and consultations to a host of organizations and institutions throughout the United States and abroad. He is a former Professor of Family Therapy at both Syracuse University, NY, and Drexel University, PA. He is the author of Racial Trauma: Clinical Strategies and Techniques for Healing Invisible Wounds, and The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness, both from W. W. Norton. He is also co-author of Culturally Sensitive Supervision; Promoting Culturally Sensitive Supervision; and Revisioning Family Therapy.