Becoming a Citizen Therapist

Integrating Community Problem-Solving Into Your Work As a Healer

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

This book shows therapists how they can impact their communities by engaging their fellow citizens in addressing broad-based health and social problems.The greatest untapped resources for improving our health and social well-being are the knowledge, energy, and first-hand wisdom of the individuals, families, and communities who have dealt with challenges in their everyday lives. Mental health professionals can learn how to leverage these relationships to enact broader, community-wide change, using practices that fall outside of traditional methods of mental health service delivery. This book presents insights from the authors' two decades of work in the citizen health care model, in which they have partnered with leaders from a wide range of communities on initiatives designed to improve health and remove social barriers. Readers will learn big-picture strategies for identifying and developing community-level initiatives, from disease prevention to broader cultural challenges, as well as common problems that arise when doing this work. Includes in-depth discussions of successful, real-world programs co-created by therapists and community members, including: diabetes education anti-smoking campaigns political depolarization police interactions

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:338 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:231
Förlag:American Psychological Association
ISBN:9781433839863

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William J. Doherty, PhD, is a professor in the department of family social science at the University of Minnesota (UMN), where he directs the Citizen Professional Center and the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project. In his career he has combined clinical innovations, including the specialties of medical family therapy and discernment counseling for couples on the brink of divorce, with a wide range of community engagement projects. In 2 he cofounded Braver Angels, a national initiative to counteract polarization and restore the fraying social fabric of the nation. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Family Therapy Association. Tai J. Mendenhall, PhD, is a medical family therapist and professor in the couple and family therapy program at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in the department of family social science. He is an adjunct professor in UMN's department of family medicine and community health. Dr. Mendenhall is also the director of UMN amp rsquo s Medical Reserve Corps amp rsquo Mental Health Disaster-Response Teams, and the associate director of UMN amp rsquo s Citizen Professional Center. He works actively in the conduct of integrated, and collaborative, family health care, training, and outreach. His efforts in community-based participatory research and citizen health care initiatives address public health issues.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Overview of Citizen Therapist WorkIntroduction: What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?Chapter . Foundations of Citizen Therapist WorkPart II. Health Care ProjectsChapter 2. Family Education Diabetes Series: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic in an American Indian Community Chapter 3. Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco AddictionChapter 4. The Como Clinic Health Club: Activating Citizen Patient Leaders Part III. Family and Cultural Change Projects Chapter 5. Putting Family First: Resisting the Pull of Overscheduling Kids Chapter . The Citizen Father Project Chapter 7. Braver Angels: Counteracting Political Polarization Part IV. Projects Dealing With Race Chapter 8. The Relationships Project With Young Black Men Chapter 9. The Police and Black Men Project Part V. Becoming and Succeeding as a Citizen Therapist Chapter . Case Studies in Other Citizen Therapist WorkWith Mark Meier, Marisol L. Meyer, Alexis R. Franklin, Ceewin N. Louder, Joelle Dorsett, Marie Boursiquot White, Guerda Nicolas, and Brooke MillerChapter . Maintaining Citizen Health Care Projects Over Time Chapter 2. Funding and Evaluation in Citizen Health Care Chapter 3. Getting Started as a Citizen Therapist Chapter 4. The Citizen Therapist as a Person and as a Professional Afterword References Index About the Authors