This book will prepare social workers, psychologists, and
counselors for psychosocial work with individuals and groups who
are experiencing distress and trauma resulting from historical and
current sociopolitical oppression and violence. Sociopolitical
oppression is a sustained, systematic catastrophe, which results
from social targeting and discrimination such as racism, sexism and
misogyny, homophobia, and anti-immigrant fervor. The consequences
are profound and debilitating. In some ways, they are similar to
reactions to a single event disaster (e.g., hurricane, earthquake,
terrorist attack) but even more insidious because the social
targeting and harassment have been ongoing and will continue. As a
guide for direct clinical practice, this book offers new models for
understanding the nature and consequences of sociopolitical
disasters as well as guiding a range of interventions – clinical,
psychoeducational, advocacy, and social justice – for use on a
micro, mezzo, and macro level. Drawing on indigenous and BIPOC
knowledge and scholarship and using case studies from around the
world, it criticizes while also adapting and integrating knowledge
and theory from the fields of disaster mental health, psychosocial
capacity building, trauma therapy, psychodynamic theory, cognitive
behavioral theories, and theories of resilience and positive
psychology, linking them to an understanding of historical and
social oppression, social justice, and intergroup conflict and
reconciliation. The book offers critiques of dominant Western,
Eurocentric visions of personhood and models of intervention and
questions assumptions about the roles of "client" and "worker,"
proposing more egalitarian, collaborative relationships and
extensive use of training of trainers. It will prepare graduate
students and practitioners across the helping professions for work
that promotes the collective and individual strength and efficacy
of affected people, while also responding directly to
vulnerability, stress, and trauma.
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