Decolonizing trauma healing : toward a humble, culturally responsive practice / Laura S. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Laura S., author.

Contributor:

American Psychological Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Mental health.

Decolonization.

Cultural Competency.

Cultural competence.

Medical Subjects:

Psychotherapy.

Cultural Competency.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 387 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, 2024.

Summary:

"In the early 21st century a movement has arisen in the mental health fields that refers to "decolonizing mental health". This book offers a critical examination of the field of trauma work using a decolonial lens, recentering narratives and approaches to healing in a more inclusive, culturally responsive way than that offered by dominant Eurocentric approaches. As trauma is a universal experience, a colonized paradigm for responding to trauma re-introduces problematic dynamics of domination and subjugation that are inimical to healing. The book offers a new paradigm for how psychologists and other mental health providers can learn to properly understand and work with people whose lives, psyches, and souls have been damaged by exposure to trauma. The author introduces her decolonial, humble, culturally responsive model of trauma healing practice. The author urges readers to abandon the concept of cultural competence and other approaches that maintain a Eurocentric perspective, in favor of a decolonial method that re-centers the sufferer's lived experience, with an understanding of the subtle ways in which the colonial mindset underlies the causes of trauma as well as our traditional conception of trauma healing. As a member of a colonized and marginalized culture, as well as in her work as a trauma healer, the author serves as an inspiration for readers who want to understand why the traditional approach to trauma care has been insufficient, and all those who are ready to do the work needed to bring the field to a new level of clarity and rigor."--Preface (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

Contents:

Introduction: We meet again

Introducing the decolonial, humble, culturally responsive model

An expansive decolonial paradigm for trauma

Decolonizing trauma healing

Where we've come from: The heritage of decolonial healing

Decolonial understandings of the traumagenic effects of social pathologies

Exploring intersectional identities in DHCR trauma healing

Decolonizing the constructs and myths of safety, part I

Decolonizing myths of safety, part II

Stories of unknowing and what follows when we know: Getting closer to safe

Intersectionalities and trauma: Risk and capacities in the face of social pathologies and relational harm

Exploring and decolonizing the intersectional identities of suffering people

Criteria for a decolonial, humble, culturally responsive practice of trauma healing: Making the grade

Aren't there already some DHCR trauma healing methodologies? And what can we learn from them?

References

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2024.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Decolonizing trauma healing

ISBN:

1433840642

9781433840647

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.