1st Edition
The Handbook of Disability-Affirmative Systemic Therapy Effective Clinical Care with Disabled Clients and their Families
Section I: History, Law & the Sociopolitical Context of Disability
1. “he printed his name with his right hand *”
Steven T. Licardi, LCSW
2. An Overview of the History of Disability in the United States
Megan C. Carlos, Ph.D.
3. Disability and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S. Legal System
Solomon Furious Worlds, J.D. and Ellis Scout Cliff
4. Human Variation: Disability Models Explained
Angélica Guevara, Ph.D.
5. Ableism within Academia: Impact on the Lives of Disabled Persons
Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D.
Section II: Contextualizing Disability Through an Intersectional Lens
6. “Total Blindness”
Catlin Hernandez
7. The Intersection of Older Adulthood, Mental Health, and Disability
Pamela B. Teaster, Ph.D., and Onyinye F Mbanefo, M.S.
8. The Intersection of Race and Disability: Redefining Inclusive Therapeutic Practice
Angélica Guevara, Ph.D.
9. Intersecting Identities: Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People
Alan Santinele Martino, Ph.D., Melissa Miller, Jordan Parks, and Eleni Moumos
Section III: Foundations of Disability-Affirmative Therapy
10. “Becoming Dyslexic”
Catherine Kapphahn
11. Thinking Psychoanalytically about Therapy with Disabled People: The Need to Begin with Ourselves
Brian Watermeyer, Ph.D.
12. The Counteractive Value of Disability Affirmative Therapy: How Well-meaning Assumptions (“I don’t see disability”) Impacts Disabled Clients
Katy Evans and Mel Halacre
13. The Critical Role of Marriage and Family Therapists in Disability Discourses
Kami L. Gallus Ph.D., LMFT, Jennifer L. Jones, Ph.D., Garrett M. Jones, and Natalie M. Richardson, Ph.D., LMFT
14. Couples Therapy with Disabled Partners: Integrating Disability into Relational Practice
Rebecca Kammes, Ph.D., LMFT, Madeline Barger, LMFT, and Debra L. Miller, Ph.D., LCSW
15. Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part I): Historical Foundations and Philosophical Assumptions
Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC
16. Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part II): Clinical Applications
Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC
17. Accessible Therapy Spaces: Looking Beyond Infrastructure
Toni Saia, Ph.D., CRC and Gabrielle Ficchi Ph.D., LPC, LPCS, CRC
Section IV: Clinical Supervision and Program Development
18. “I am.”
Pramod Shankar
19. Addressing The Missing Piece: Developing Inclusive Programmatic Structures, Modules, and Coursework
Brittany A. Williams, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, Derek, X. Seward, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC, and Kahyen Shin
20. Multi-disciplinary Collaboration, Representation, and Ethical Research of Disability Experiences
Lydia Qualls, Ph.D., Lyndon Frommer, and Ashley Shew, Ph.D.
21. Clinical Supervision of Disability-Specific Cases
Shakeela Gray, LGPC, NCC, Brittany A. Williams Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, and Briana Gaines, Ph.D., LPC, CCTP
22. Disability Justice and the Person-of-the-Therapist Framework
James Tillett, Ph.D., Jody Russon, Ph.D., and Shalini Srinivasan, M.A.
Biography
Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., is a clinician, educator, and scholar who specializes in disability-affirmative systemic therapy. She is the founder of Therapy at Bay – a private practice based in the San Francisco Bay area – and provides national and international training on systemic therapy with disabled clients and families.
“The pivotal role of critical psychotherapy in the emancipation of disabled people has been largely ignored. This foundational reading drives an essential conversation surrounding the potential of depth-oriented, subversive and liberatory psychotherapy. It uncovers the links between ableist ideology, material barriers to participation, and the subjective worlds of disabled people, through interrogating the unconscious underpinnings of inequality.”
Brian Watermeyer, PhD
“This extraordinary comprehensive handbook is the first to provide a relational and family-focused, systemic, contextual, and disability studies informed framework. This “go-to” text will be an extremely valuable resource to seasoned clinicians, scholars, and graduate students across mental healthcare disciplines. Manasi and colleagues provide a wealth of evidence-based therapeutic interventions as well as training and programmatic guidelines to help meet the challenges for disabled individuals, couples, and families.”
John Rolland, PhD
