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Book SynopsisRadical Psychology discusses 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. This book provides a challenging balance between research and professional reflections in order to appeal to readers with different cultural background and different learning styles. The diversity of the contributors underscores the emphasis on the need to include cultural experts as side-by-side colleagues, consultants, and supervisors in order to help Western psychologists expand their professional cultural paradigms and worldviews. This book is relevant to psychologists, counselors, educators, researchers, social workers, substance abuse counselors, administrators, students, and mental health agencies.
Trade Review“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
Table of ContentsChapter 1: A Changing Paradigm by Susan O. Gelberg and Mathew A. Poteet Chapter 2: The Existential Change in Perspective in the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) by David D. Moore Chapter 3: The Psychologist and Allied Behavioral Health Facilitators Re-Trained as Humanistic Firestarters by David. D. Moore and Don Coyhis Chapter 4: Treatment Interventions for Intimate Partner Violence in the Lives of African American Women: A Social Justice Approach by Carolyn M. West Chapter 5: Immigration and Social Justice by Alfonso Mercado & Amanda Venta Chapter 6: Moving Beyond Culturally Competent Services for Vietnamese Americans: Working towards Social Justice by Kim Nguyen-Finn and Jerome Fischer Chapter 7: Adventures in Intersectionality: The Journey of an Early Career Psychologist by Jessica L. Binkley Chapter 8: Social Justice in Prevention Psychology: Healing with The Community Readiness Model by Pamela Jumper Thurman, Barbara A Plested, Kateri Coyhis And Hanna Moore Chapter 9: The Issues of Identity, Self-Awareness, and Social Justice by Fred C. Miller Chapter 10: Decolonizing Knowledge Creation: Moving Toward the Sacred and the Liminal by Mathew A. Poteet and Bonita M. Veysey
