Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities

<p>This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative liberation and strengths-based models of resilience.</p><p>Key areas of coverage include:</p><ul><li>Families of transgender and gender diverse people.</li><li>The role of chosen family in LGBTQ communities.</li><li>Latinx LGBTQ families.</li><li>The Indian Child Welfare Act.</li><li>Celebration of Black girl voices.</li><li>Homeschooling as a resilience factor for Black families.</li><li>Black identity and resilience related to mental health.</li><li>Black resilience in families.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><em>Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities</em> is a must-have resource for researchers professors and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental psychology family studies clinical child and school psychology cultural psychology social work and public health as well as education policy and politics behavioral health psychiatry and all related disciplines.</p>