Description
Book SynopsisThis book shows therapists how they can impact their communities by engaging fellow citizensin addressing broad-based health and social problems.
Table of ContentsPart I. Overview of Citizen Therapist Work Introduction: What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?
Chapter 1. Foundations of Citizen Therapist Work
Part II. Health Care Projects Chapter 2. Family Education Diabetes Series: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic in an American Indian Community
Chapter 3. Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction
Chapter 4. The Como Clinic Health Club: Activating Citizen Patient Leaders
Part III. Family and Cultural Change Projects Chapter 5. Putting Family First: Resisting the Pull of Overscheduling Kids
Chapter 6. The Citizen Father Project
Chapter 7. Braver Angels: Counteracting Political Polarization
Part IV. Projects Dealing With Race Chapter 8. The Relationships Project With Young Black Men
Chapter 9. The Police and Black Men Project
Part V. Becoming and Succeeding as a Citizen Therapist Chapter 10. Case Studies in Other Citizen Therapist Work
With Mark Meier, Marisol L. Meyer, Alexis R. Franklin, Ceewin N. Louder, Joelle Dorsett, Marie Boursiquot White, Guerda Nicolas, and Brooke Miller
Chapter 11. Maintaining Citizen Health Care Projects Over Time
Chapter 12. Funding and Evaluation in Citizen Health Care
Chapter 13. Getting Started as a Citizen Therapist
Chapter 14. The Citizen Therapist as a Person and as a Professional
Afterword
References
Index
About the Authors
