Voices of Color : First-Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists

Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists is the first book to address the training, academic, and professional experiences of ethnic minority therapists. Using real cases, narratives, and biographical material, each chapter motivates the reader to ponder and challenge how issues related to mental health intersect with race/ethnicity within a broader diversity framework.  The contributors represent various mental health disciplines, and they all write from a systemic perspective on therapy cases, theory, new models, and research. The authors present powerful narratives of how their personal and professional experiences inform each other.  These insider perspectives are placed within a broader systemic context highlighting the interplay between personal, academic, and professional political relationships and their symbiotic impact on individuals, families, and communities.   These combined voices of color add a new and significant perspective to the awareness of students, clinicians, educators, supervisors, and administrators regarding their personal position vis-à-vis psychotherapy, different multicultural dimensions, and social justice.      

Carmen Aguirre is a doctoral student in the marriage and family therapy program at Texas Tech University Saba Rasheed Ali is an assistant professor in the counseling psychology program at the University of Iowa J. Maria Bermudez is an assistant professor of marriage and family therapy and is on the Women's Studies Counsel at Texas Tech University Nancy Boyd-Franklin is a professor in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University Dean M. Busby is a professor and the chair of the Human Development and Family Studies Department at Texas Tech University in Lubbock Laurie L. Charles is an assistant professor of family therapy at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa Krista M. Chronister is an assistant professor in the counseling psychology program at the University of Oregon Edward A. Delgado-Romero is an assistant professor in counseling psychology at Indiana University, Bloomington Janet M. Derrick is in private practice as a Registered Family Therapist in Kamloops, British Columbia Jonathan R. Flojo is a research associate at the Instructional Research Group in Long Beach, California Diane Hayashino is a staff psychologist at the University of California, Irvine Student Health Center Nithyakala Karuppaswamy is an international student from India currently doing her doctoral research in the MFT program at Purdue University in Indiana Shalonda Kelly is an assistant professor in the clinical department of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers University Larry Jin (Kwok Hung) Lee is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker employed as a behavioral medicine specialist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in South San Francisco Azmaira H. Maker is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Denise D. McAdory is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of South Alabama in Mobile Ellen Hawley McWhirter is an associate professor in the counseling psychology program at the University of Oregon Mona Mittal is currently an assistant professor and director of research in the department of marriage and family therapy at Syracuse University in New York Rajeswari Natrajan is a doctoral student at Purdue University in Indiana Debra A. Nixon, a native of Dallas, Texas, is a licensed minister, author, and founder of Liberation Ministries Kelly Ramon Ozambela is a doctoral candidate in the counseling psychology program at Temple University in Philadelphia J. Ruben Parra Cardona is a Mexican citizen and a doctoral candidate in the marriage and family therapy program at Texas Tech University Nenetzin Angelica Reyes is a student in the marriage and family therapy program at Texas Tech University Luis Antonio Rivas is a staff psychologist at Seton Hall University Counseling Services in South Orange, New Jersey Melanie Domenech Rodriguez is an assistant professor in the psychology department at Utah State University Monika Sharma currently provides services to adolescents with emotional difficulties at GlenOaks Therapeutic Day School in Glendale Heights, Illinois Quincy R. Smiling is a doctoral student in the rehabilitation counselor education program at the University of Iowa Martha Adams Sullivan is Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Narumi Taniguchi is a doctoral candidate in marriage and family therapy at Texas Tech University Danielle Torres is currently an assistant professor in the school counseling program at Pacific University Richard S. Wampler is a professor of marriage and family therapy at Texas Tech University Carole Woolford-Hunt is Associate Director of Training, Assistant Professor, and Faculty Director of International Student Services at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Jorge Antonio Zamora is a graduate student in the marriage and family therapy program at Texas Tech University