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CULTURAL TOOLBOX
A practical guide designed to:
• Help mental health professionals conduct in-depth cultural self-assessments in order to identify and address cultural stereotypes, biases, and Western colonizing counseling practices.
• Help avoid Eurocentric practices that can harm clients from other cultures;
suggest additional client self-assessments and resource materials.
• Help present a variety of cultural viewpoints about culture and mental health through brief chapter contributions by individuals who hold diverse world views.
• Discuss research regarding the impact of cultural violence on mental health providers & their clients.
Includes:
• Reflective topics
• Journaling opportunities
• Illustrations
• Clinical anecdotes
• Essays, extensive resource lists
• Photographs to complement the text
• A practical, easy-too-read, & user-friendly resource
RADICAL PSYCHOLOGY
...psychological factors that shape multicultural competency and social justice effectiveness, such as implicit and explicit biases, difficulties in accurate self-assessment of cultural competency and social justice skills, and the historical colonial biases that still shape Western psychological training and practice.
“Reading Radical Psychology: Multicultural and Social Justice Decolonization Initiatives fills me with both excitement and relief. In these racially traumatic times, all of us who claim to value justice must align our actual practice with our professed beliefs.
The call is urgent. Here is our framework.”
Robin DiAngelo, PhD,
Robin DiAngelo, LLC
— Robin DiAngelo
"Radical Psychology: Multicultural and Social Justice Decolonization Initiatives is a work that deals with social justice in the field of psychology in a practical and real manner which is long overdue. Issues like white fragility and privilege are addressed in a manner that is visceral and at the same time is intended to heal injustice. The authors have fulfilled Paolo Freire’s dream in that liberation discourse is about liberating the oppressed as well as the oppressor, and therefore an act of love." - Eduardo Duran, 7th Direction Psychotherapy, Assessment, and Consulting
— Eduardo Duran
"Radical Psychology moves the conversation forward in multiculturalism and social justice in an approach that is accessible to mental health professionals as well as those
in training."
— Joseph Chojnacki, Marshfield Medical Center