This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience. Key areas of coverage include: Families of transgender and gender diverse people. The role of chosen family in LGBTQ communities. Latinx LGBTQ families. The Indian Child Welfare Act. Celebration of Black girl voices. Homeschooling as a resilience factor for Black families. Black identity and resilience related to mental health. Black resilience in families. Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, clinical child and school psychology, cultural psychology, social work, and public health as well as education policy and politics, behavioral health, psychiatry, and all related disciplines.

Transgender and gender expansive people are increasingly becoming the focus of media, politics, and of public conversation. With this increased attention comes greater visibility and counselors are now, more than ever, likely to clinically engage with openly transgender or gender expansive clients during their careers. This is in spite of the fact that many counselors have not received specific training in skills, knowledge, and awareness necessary to provide affirming, informed care for these populations. In this book, the authors provide practical, real-life suggestions and interventions to help therapists, supervisors, and trainees increase in their competence and confidence in working with transgender and gender expansive clients. The resources provided here are informed by evidence-based practice, scholarship on intersectionality, and by social justice and advocacy movements. This book is a useful supplement to clinical work with transgender and gender expansive people, especially for the many clinicians who work in regions with limited transgender-specific resources. In this book, readers can expect to find resources for: Exploration of gender identities (for personal growth, with clients, and in supervision) Understanding how privilege and oppression relate to gender identity and expression Providing supervision to counselors working with transgender and gender expansive (TGE) clients Understanding diverse and intersectional TGE identities Ethical issues when working with TGE people Worksheets and interventions that can be used to support TGE clients Finding regional resources to support TGE clients through diverse social and medical transition processes How finances affect transition for some transgender clients Developing a plan to work with TGE clients in both rural and urban regions Examples of letters of recommendation, carry letters, and how to develop a "resource list" How practitioners can market their practice to TGE clients Recommendations for those working with TGE clients in schools, college counseling centers, and other settings

Transgender and gender expansive people are increasingly becoming the focus of media, politics, and of public conversation. With this increased attention comes greater visibility and counselors are now, more than ever, likely to clinically engage with openly transgender or gender expansive clients during their careers. This is in spite of the fact that many counselors have not received specific training in skills, knowledge, and awareness necessary to provide affirming, informed care for these populations. In this book, the authors provide practical, real-life suggestions and interventions to help therapists, supervisors, and trainees increase in their competence and confidence in working with transgender and gender expansive clients. The resources provided here are informed by evidence-based practice, scholarship on intersectionality, and by social justice and advocacy movements. This book is a useful supplement to clinical work with transgender and gender expansive people, especially for the many clinicians who work in regions with limited transgender-specific resources. In this book, readers can expect to find resources for: Exploration of gender identities (for personal growth, with clients, and in supervision) Understanding how privilege and oppression relate to gender identity and expression Providing supervision to counselors working with transgender and gender expansive (TGE) clients Understanding diverse and intersectional TGE identities Ethical issues when working with TGE people Worksheets and interventions that can be used to support TGE clients Finding regional resources to support TGE clients through diverse social and medical transition processes How finances affect transition for some transgender clients Developing a plan to work with TGE clients in both rural and urban regions Examples of letters of recommendation, carry letters, and how to develop a "resource list" How practitioners can market their practice to TGE clients Recommendations for those working with TGE clients in schools, college counseling centers, and other settings

All professional counselors and therapists can identify a number of turning points in their careers ? moments, interactions, or processes ? that led to key realizations regarding their practice with clients, work with students, or self-understanding. This book is a collection of such turning points, which the editors term defining moments, contributed by professionals in different stages of their counseling careers. You?ll find personal stories, lessons learned, and unique insights in their narratives that will impact your own development as a practitioner, regardless of whether you are a graduate student or a senior professional.