Voices of Color

Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists is the first book to address the training academic and professional experiences of ethnic minority therapists. Using real cases narratives and biographical material each chapter motivates the reader to ponder and challenge how issues related to mental health intersect with race/ethnicity within a broader diversity framework. The contributors represent various mental health disciplines and they all write from a systemic perspective on therapy cases theory new models and research. The authors present powerful narratives of how their personal and professional experiences inform each other. These insider perspectives are placed within a broader systemic context highlighting the interplay between personal academic and professional political relationships and their symbiotic impact on individuals families and communities. These combined voices of color add a new and significant perspective to the awareness of students clinicians educators supervisors and administrators regarding their personal position vis--vis psychotherapy different multicultural dimensions and social justice.