1st Edition
Reimagining Race in Psychology Challenging Narratives and Widening Perspectives in Training and Practice
This important book brings together race, mental health and applied psychology, unpacking these areas from differing perspectives and offering new insights in support of training and development of practice.
The ability to work with issues of race and intersectionality within psychology is vital. Contributors with experience in counselling psychology and applied psychology from across varied social contexts and professional settings reframe and challenge familiar concepts such as movements to decolonise the curriculum, psychology and therapy. The chapters offer clinical vignettes, lived experiences and reflective questions to provoke the reader’s thinking and engage with curiosity and sensitivity around cultural bias, discrimination, language, and the evolution of terminologies. This book captures the relationship between the ethos of counselling psychology and race, offering a much-needed guide for how to encompass race and racialised experiences in the training and practice of psychology. Rooted in the United Kingdom context but applicable more widely, contributions cover training, supervision, ethical practice, racial trauma, bias and diagnosis, and politics, as well as perspectives and approaches in practice at the intersection of race and gender, age, neurodiversity, sexuality, and spirituality.
This is a key resource for the continued development of in-training and experienced psychologists and psychotherapists, as well as other practitioners within the mental health and allied professions. It will also be of use to students in clinical training programmes and courses such as applied psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy.
PART 1 AT THE PERCEIVED INCIPIENT
1 Frameworks
Cerisse Gunasinghe
2 Training
Andre Etchebarne
3 Developing super-vision in a colour-blind world
Amelia Baldwin
4 Ethics and ethical practice
Jaspreet Tehara, Ohemaa Nkansa-Dwamena, and Yetunde Ade-Serrano
PART 2 LANDSCAPE
5 Mental health
Hayat Hussein
6 Racial trauma
Divine Charura and Byron Al-Murri
7 Bias and diagnosis
Ranjot Bhogal and Neha Cattra
8 The impact of systemic racism
Adebayo Idowu
9 Race and politics
Dominique Fray-Aitken
PART 3 PERSPECTIVES IN PRACTICE
10 The role of intergenerational trauma and adultification in children and young people
Raisa Kumaga
11 Rethinking the way we work with Black men
Melissa Butler
12 Working with women of colour
Mou Sultana
13 Working with older adults of colour
Natalie V. Bailey
14 Social hierarchies and societal values: Implications for Black queer men in the UK
Andrew Stockhausen
PART 4 APPROACHES IN PRACTICE
15 Why I developed mindfulness calligraphy enhance therapy?
Juan Du
16 Race and neurodiversity: Understanding intersectionality and privilege – My story
Tumi Sotire
17 Faith, religion and spirituality
Asuka Yamashina
Postscript
Biography
Yetunde Ade-Serrano is a chartered and registered Practitioner Counselling Psychologist who works primarily in independent practice. She also works as an Expert Witness in Family Courts and as a Domestic Violence Risk Assessor. Dr Ade-Serrano is a UK-based practitioner.
Ohemaa Nkansa-Dwamena is a registered and chartered Counselling Psychologist and an Associate Professor in Counselling Psychology at City, University of London, UK. She works primarily in private practice with former clinical positions in NHS, forensic, higher education, and third sector settings.
