Merging Clinical Social Work Practice and Antiracist Positioning by Ashley, Wendy; Steinberg, Shirley R.;

Short description:

This textbook blends key social work competencies with an anti-oppressive, antiracist, trauma informed, clinical approach. This book offers information and knowledge for effective, anti-oppressive, clinical practice, teaches skills to facilitate this type of service provision and provides a vehicle to promote praxis.

Long description:

This textbook blends key social work competencies (engagement, assessment, treatment planning, risk assessment, intervention, termination, and evaluation) with an anti-oppressive, antiracist, trauma-informed, clinical approach. It offers information and knowledge on anti-oppressive clinical practice and teaches skills to facilitate effective antiracist service provision.

Each chapter provides basic knowledge, followed by reflective questions and exercises for critical analysis, case examples for practical application, and tools for implementing these skills. Social workers need to understand clinical theory and develop practice skills with clients, families, and communities who have experienced historical trauma, systemic oppression, and multiple intersectional identities. Learning how to increase practitioner self-awareness, engage in strategic action, and improve accountability are the beginnings of an antiracist clinical practice.

Table of Contents:

Wendy Ashley: Introduction - L. O. Curiel: Antiracist Social Work Education: Pedagogical Congruency in Racial Justice Teaching and Learning - J. Hattley: The Impact of Racism and Racial Gaslighting on Practice - A. Farina/S. Azhar/M. Cristofalo: Resilience-Building Skills to Enhance Anti-Oppressive Social Work Learning - W. Ashley: Antiracist and Intersectional Identification, Assessment, and Management of Risk Factors in Clinical Practice - T. Brooks, J. Gould/K. Mortimer: Anti-Oppressive, Intersectional Engagement and Assessment - L. Smith/N. Wofford: The Impact of Anti-Black Racism: Perspectives on Assessment of Racial Trauma When Working with Black-Identified Populations - S. Bussey: The Use of Structural Assessment to Bring a Macro Understanding to Micro-level Encounters - A. Lipscomb/W. Ashley/L. Curiel/S. Mountz: Conducting Culturally Responsive Mental Status Examinations (CR-MSE) - E. Maloney/M. Parker/T. Plachta: Antiracist Treatment Planning - R. Clark Mane/A. Horthy: LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Therapy - E. Andujo/N. Juarez/M. Juarez: A Clinical Guide for Challenging Contemporary Racism and Inequities in Latinx Communities - J. Paez/K. Aguilar/M. Hernandez/M. Montoya/L. X. LermandaDel Aguila/A. Rosales: Indigenous Knowledge and Relational Accountability as Antidotes to the Coloniality of Social Work Practice - N. K. Hernández/M. Milliner/K. Garcia/C. Mounier: Structural Competency and Antiracist Social Work Practice with Youth and Families: Part One, Individual and Family Treatment - C. Mounier/A. Cortez: Antiracist Social Work Practice with Youth and Families: Applying Structural Competency to Practice Settings and With Community Partners - C. Schmidt/C. D. Tronnier: Conceptualizing and Responding to Racialized Trauma: Racial Justice Considerations for Forming and Facilitating Groups - S. Mountz/A. Lipscomb/M. Fowler: Embodying Antiracist Practice Through Mindfulness and Intergroup Dialogue - J. Brown/Y. Tejeda: Antiracist Research-Informed Practice - S. Banks/S. Walker/A. G. Perez: Anti-oppressive and Antiracist Strategies in Unified Courts - A. Aldana: Self-Care as Resistance: Rest as a Pedagogical Tool and Critical Race Praxis - C. Souza/K. Cespedes/K.-Bundy Fazioli/R. Bubar: Impact of Settler Colonialism and Racism on Social Work: Considerations and Challenges for a Self-Reflexive Practice - K. Chambers/M. Garcia: Open Letter to Master of Social Work Students on Microaggressions - S. L. Brown: Using Clinical Skills and an Afrocentric Twelve-Step Model to Navigate Microaggressions - M. A. Robinson/D. A. Boamah/B. Nwachuku/S. Jones-Eversley/E. Sterrett-Hong/S. Miller/S. Moore/A. C. Adedoyin: Navigating Microaggressions and Macroaggressions in Social Work Practice with Black Clients - D. Harris: Anti-oppressive Social Work Practice: A Social Justice Values Approach - M. Valetta: Cultural Starvation - T. A. Butler Davis/A. Zielinski: Trauma and Healing - J. Johnson: Anti-racist Telehealth Policy and Practice: Using Technology to Heal -M. Salas: Saviorism and Burnout - N. Vazquez/S. V. Parras: Unlearning as Praxis: A Love Letter to our MSW Student Selves - Notes on Contributors.