Addressing Racism: Facilitating Cultural Competence in Mental Health and Educational Settings - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471779970 ISBN 13: 9780471779971

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Synopsis

Learn to identify and combat unintentional and overt racism

This provocative book identifies and addresses racism in mentalhealth and educational settings, providing proven strategies forovercoming this stubborn barrier to culturally competent practice.While addressing overt forms of racism, the book also explores andsensitizes practitioners to covert and unintentional forms ofracism that may be equally detrimental in denying persons of coloraccess to unbiased, high–quality education and mental healthcare.

Despite the dismantling of overt racist policies, such assegregated schooling, and the implementation of policies aimed atremedying racial inequities, such as affirmative action, racismcontinues to persist in American society. Drs. Madonna Constantineand Derald Wing Sue, two of the leading researchers and advocatesfor multicultural competence, have collected sixteenthought–provoking and challenging chapters on the many ways thatracism can affect a practitioner′s interactions in mental healthand school settings. These contributions collectively bring to theforefront highly charged issues that need to be discussed, but aretoo often hidden away.

The book is divided into four parts:

• What Do We Know about Racism?
• Racism in Mental Health Contexts
• Racism in Educational Settings
• Eradicating Racism: Future Directions

Faced with the responsibility of understanding multipleoppressions and the intersections of racism with sexism, classism,and heterosexism, mental health practitioners and educators must bevigilant of their personal role in perpetuating racism. Thiscollected work will help you identify forms of racism, both withinyourself and the systems you work in, and then implement strategiesto eliminate them.

About this title

About the Author

MADONNA G. CONSTANTINE, PhD, is Professor of Psychology andEducation in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychologyat Teachers College, Columbia University. She is a highly esteemedresearcher in the area of multicultural counseling, and she servesin leadership capacities in various counseling and psychologicalassociations across the country.

DERALD WING SUE, PhD, is Professor of Psychology andEducation at Teachers College, Columbia University, and holds ajoint appointment with the Columbia University School of SocialWork. He is the coauthor with David Sue of Counseling theCulturally Diverse, Fourth Edition (Wiley), the most widely usedmulticultural text in counseling and psychology programs.
Drs. Constantine and Sue are also the editors of Strategies forBuilding Multicultural Competence in Mental Health and EducationalSettings (Wiley).

This provocative book identifies and addresses racism in mentalhealth and educational settings, providing proven strategies forovercoming this stubborn barrier to culturally competent practice.While addressing overt forms of racism, the book also explores andsensitizes practitioners to covert and unintentional forms ofracism that may be equally detrimental in denying persons of coloraccess to unbiased, high–quality education and mental healthcare.

Despite the dismantling of overt racist policies, such assegregated schooling, and the implementation of policies aimed atremedying racial inequities, such as affirmative action, racismcontinues to persist in American society. Drs. Madonna Constantineand Derald Wing Sue, two of the leading researchers and advocatesfor multicultural competence, have collected sixteenthought–provoking and challenging chapters on the many ways thatracism can affect a practitioner′s interactions in mental healthand school settings. These contributions collectively bring to theforefront highly charged issues that need to be discussed, but aretoo often hidden away.

The book is divided into four parts:

• What Do We Know about Racism?
• Racism in Mental Health Contexts
• Racism in Educational Settings
• Eradicating Racism: Future Directions

Faced with the responsibility of understanding multipleoppressions and the intersections of racism with sexism, classism,and heterosexism, mental health practitioners and educators must bevigilant of their personal role in perpetuating racism. Thiscollected work will help you identify forms of racism, both withinyourself and the systems you work in, and then implement strategiesto eliminate them.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471779970
• ISBN 13: 9780471779971
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Constantine Madonna G., Sue Derald Wing