1st Edition
Transforming Careers in Mental Health for BIPOC Strategies to Promote Healing and Social Change
This book provides targeted advice to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the mental health professions on how to navigate, resist, and transform institutions and policies that were not designed for them.
A diverse team of BIPOC leaders reveal their experiences of race-related stress and how they draw on cultural strengths and anti-oppressive frameworks to create more inclusive, equitable, and culturally affirming approaches to mental health training, research, and practice. This book illustrates how it is possible for BIPOC students and professionals to have a career that is more sustainable, allows authenticity to emerge, and sparks transformative change in clients, students, organizations, and society. It addresses the unique professional development needs of BIPOC individuals across different career stages and professional roles. Covering topics such as how to respond to microaggressions from patients, become a media contributor, or step into organizational leadership, each core chapter includes a discussion of the pertinent literature, culturally grounded theories, personal reflections, and actionable strategies for community healing and social change.
This essential guide will inspire trainees, practitioners, educators, and administrators in the fields of social work, psychology, counseling, psychiatry, education, and public health, to envision a path toward a more culturally affirming and transformative career.
The introduction, chapter 1, and chapter 25 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDF’s at http://www.taylorfrancis.com.
Introduction
Doris F. Chang and Linda Lausell Bryant
Part I: Finding and Owning Your Voice
1. Ethnic-Racialized Identities as Strengths: Navigating Academic Pathways that Affirm and Value Who We Are
Linda Juang
2. Applying to Graduate School: Tips and Strategies for BIPOC and International Students
Nari Yoo and Sophia Williams Kapten
3. Experiences of International Graduate Students in Training in Health Service Psychology and Related Mental Health Disciplines: Challenges and Reflections
Iris Yi Miao and Xiang Zhou
4. Intersectionality and Graduate Students of Color: Addressing the Interplay Between Identity, Systemic Oppression, and Resistance
Hector Y. Adames and Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas
5. Addressing Racial Microaggressions and Racial Enactments in Therapy for BIPOC and Immigrant Clinicians
Eunjung Lee, Ran Hu, and Tolulola Taiwo-Hanna
6. Decolonizing Research Approaches: Some Tips to Heal the Damages of a Sick World
E.J.R. David
7. Coping with Racism and Oppression in Higher Education: Overcoming the Imposter Phenomenon
Kevin Cokley
8. Allyship as a Vehicle for Health Equity: Reflections on a Career in Community-Based Research with Indigenous and Black Populations
Jeffrey Proulx
9. Finding Your Voice: A Community Conversation
Sophia Williams Kapten, E.J.R. David, Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Hector Y. Adames, Derek Suite, Linda Lausell Bryant, and Doris F. Chang
Part II: Taking a Leap
10. Soul Work: A Pathway to Help Heal Communities of Color
Kenneth V. Hardy
11. Developing Your Brand: Building a Private Practice
Amanda Mays
12. Combatting Racial Battle Fatigue: Navigating and Challenging Predominantly White Institutions
Derek H. Suite
13. Radical Self-Care for BIPOC
Robyn L. Gobin
14. Putting People First: Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Industry Settings
Milo Dodson
15. Restorative Practices are Liberatory: An Open Letter to BIPOC Scholar-Activists and Practitioners Committed to Anti-Oppressive Practice
Kirk “Jae” James
16. Integrating Social Justice, Black Feminist, and Radical Healing Mentoring: Lessons for Transformational Change
Helen Neville, Jioni Lewis, and Bryana French
17. Antiracist and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy: Putting Theory into Action
Grace S. Kim and Karen L. Suyemoto
18. Broadening Your Reach: Disseminating Science and Knowledge for Maximum Impact
Maryam Kia-Keating
19. The Politics of Promotion and Tenure: Tips for Navigating the Process while Staying True to Your Values
Karen Jackson-Weaver
20. Getting Your Message Out: A Community Conversation
Robin L. Gobin, Ramani Durvasula, Maryam Kia-Keating, Terrance Coffie, Doris F. Chang, Linda Lausell Bryant
Part III: Leading for Change and Impact
21. Becoming a Media Contributor: Science, Advocacy, and Public Education
Ramani Durvasula
22. Instituting Anti-Oppressive Approaches to Supervision and Clinical Training
Sandra Mattar
23. Transforming the Research Landscape through Editorial Leadership Roles
Gordon Nagayama Hall
24. Living Our Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism Values in the Academy: Engaging in Social Change Across Generations
Anneleise Singh, Brean’a Parker, and Briana Bivens
25. Rooted in Justice and Joy: Collaborative Organizational Development
Jeanette Pai-Espinosa
26. Leading and Managing While BIPOC: Emphasis on Goal not Role
Linda Lausell Bryant
27. Impact and Institution-Building: A Community Conversation
Joseph Gone, Helen Neville, Larke Huang, Doris F. Chang, Linda Lausell Bryant
Part IV: Concluding Chapters
28. Conclusion: Find Strength in This Community
Linda Lausell Bryant and Doris F. Chang
29. Relational Approaches to Transforming Institutions: Guideposts for Aspiring White Racial Justice Allies
Doris F. Chang, Linda Lausell Bryant, and Lisa B. Spanierman
Biography
Doris F. Chang, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist, Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work, USA, and Co-Founder/Chief Clinical Officer at Unmute, a BIPOC-centered mental health start-up.
Linda Lausell Bryant, PhD, MSW is a social worker, Clinical Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at New York University Silver School of Social Work, USA.
"Bravo! This book is a powerful instrument for improving mental health. The contributors teach you how to navigate, resist, and change mental health institutions and policies. I highly recommend this outstanding book to educators, practitioners, researchers, students, and to members of the public interested in mental health."
Lillian Comas-Díaz, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, George Washington University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Author, Multicultural Care, A Clinician’s Guide to Cultural Competence
"The time is right for this truth-driven, liberating book that guides readers in an exploration of race-related clinical, research, and leadership struggles that many BIPOC individuals experience. This interdisciplinary group of renown scholars ingeniously frame the issues, reminding all of the collective strength of BIPOC populations. This anthology has something for everyone."
Ramona Denby-Brinson, PhD, ACSW, LMSW, Dean and Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work
"An invaluable guide for anyone considering a career in behavioral health, confronting discrimination in their discipline or workplace, or seeking a more inclusive society. Personal histories, thoughtful reflections, and practical suggestions provide useful options for how to thrive in unfair systems. Covers diverse career-development stages, positionality combinations, and behavioral health disciplines."
Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD, MTS, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University, Director of the New York State Center of Excellence for Cultural Competence and the Hispanic Treatment Program, Research Area Leader for Anxiety, Mood, Eating, and Related Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and editor of the DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview
"This book compiles the wisdom of esteemed leaders, healers, and ground-breaking scholars who understand firsthand the barriers and the values that graduate students and early career professionals must balance and address to evolve our respective fields. The authors provide a wealth of mentorship and guidance essential for social work and psychology."
Helen H. Hsu, Psy.D., President, American Psychological Association Division 45 (Society for the Study of Race, Culture, and Ethnicity) and Director of Outreach, Stanford University Counseling and Psychological Services
"Important and timely. Drs. Lausell Bryant and Chang takes us on a journey to learn from the experience of racial and ethnic professionals about how to navigate and change the exclusionary and repressive effects of White academic institutions, policies, and health and human services delivery systems. It is a call for a larger praxis of social change and transformation of the very conditions that promote such a state of affairs."
Rosa M. Gil, DSW, President & CEO, Comunilife Inc.
"Drs. Chang and Bryant have given us a brilliant book that provides a rare opportunity to learn from some of the most influential scholars of our time. The authors merge rigorous research and their lived experiences to give us a timely view of multiculturalism in action. A truly joyful read!"
Gayle Skawen:nio Morse, PhD, Professor and Licensed Psychologist and editor, Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the APA Guidelines and Understanding Indigenous Perspectives: Visions, Dreams, and Hallucinations
"Transforming Careers in Mental Health for BIPOC is an inspiring and infuriating book. Inspiring, as a wide-ranging number of highly successful BIPOC leaders and academics tell their stories of struggle, perseverance and triumph with humbling insight and hard-earned wisdom that so many others can learn from. And, yes, infuriating because after 40 years of various calls for more diversity, equity and inclusion, the underlying systems of oppression and marginalization in higher education and human services remain almost unchanged. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to read this book. Maybe twice."
Steve Burghardt, MSW, PhD, Professor of Social Work, Silberman School of Social Work - Hunter College -CUNY
"Dr. Doris Chang and Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant have gathered a distinguished group of BIPOC scholars to provide advice and their personal experiences on how to navigate, resist, and transform mental health systems, policies, and organizations. This book gives strategies for transformational change and healing at a systems level."
Debra M. Kawahara, Ph.D., Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Distinguished Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Editor-in-Chief of Women & Therapy and Executive Director of the Illumination of Mindfulness Institute
"Transforming Careers in Mental Health for BIPOC offers revolutionary insights from leading BIPOC clinicians, administrators, and educators on how to transform mental health practice, policy, and education as well as the academy itself, demonstrating how we can all build careers that are fulfilling and liberating. With heartfelt reflections from innovators who have learned through their own courageous and often painful experiences, this is a veritable guidebook for generations of BIPOC scholars to come and an inspiring resource for creating justice in healing and education."
Kamilah Majied, PhD, LCSW, author of Joyfully Just: Black Wisdom and Buddhist Insights for Liberated Living; Professor, mental health therapist, contemplative inclusivity and equity consultant
"The clinical expertise and organizational and lived experiences of the BIPOC authors described in this unique text represents an undeniable opportunity to advance the delivery of behavioral health services in the United States."
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, PMHNP-BC, Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
