Black Women, Trauma and Therapy

Revolutionising therapeutic thought and practice
This powerful testimony to the growing confidence and reach of Black women's therapy in the UK today brings together leading theorists and practitioners to present their radical thinking and innovative work at the cutting edge of intersectionality. It is a revolutionary resource for the counselling, psychotherapy and mental health professions.

This powerful testimony to the growingconfidence and reach of Black women's therapy in the UK today brings togetherleading theorists and practitioners to present their radical thinking and innovativework at the cutting edge of intersectionality. Its chapters are hard-hitting,incisive, challenging, shocking, lyrical and inspiring, often all at once. Theycover a vast spectrum of issues impacting on Black women's mental health andwellbeing amid the ubiquity of racial and gender injustice, attacks and invisibility.Here you will find essays on childlessness and infertility, the black empathicapproach, maternal health and epistemic justice, group work with Black women,self-care in an unjust society, mixed-race multiplicity, African-centredapproaches, healing transgenerational trauma, a black feminist ethics of care, andmuch more. The contributors describe how they have remodelled, evolved and enrichedthe tenets of counselling and psychotherapy orthodoxy to better meet theirclients' emotional, cultural, social and political needs. Inspired by the 2022Community Trauma UK conference 'Black Women, Trauma and Mental Health', thisbook is a revolutionary resource for the counselling, psychotherapy and mentalhealth professions.

Contributor: Helen P. George (Edited by)

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