Clinical Reflections on the Impact of Race and Racism on the Counselor/Client Relationship

• By: Joan Adams, LCSW Bonnie Cushing, LCSW Sandra Bernabei, LCSW Gail Golden, EdD, LCSW Jeff Hitchcock, MS Natania Kremer, LCSW Jonathan McLean, LMSW Jordan Margolis, LCSW
• January 1st, 2011
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This article was prepared in collaboration with an interracial group of mental health providers practicing in a variety of public and private mental health settings. Each clinician has completed the PISAB Undoing Racism Workshop™ and does anti-racist organizing in their various settings. In...

Assessing Racial Equity Impact in Mental Health Policymaking: Reflections and Recommendations

• By: Mimi Abramovitz Sandra Bernabei, LCSW Carmen Collado, LCSW-R Robert Hawkins, MPA, MA, PhD Wayne Ho, MPP Eri J. Kim Larry Mandell, MSW Jonathan Morgenstern Gabriel Sayegh Michael Stoller
• January 1st, 2011
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Racism has a long and unique history in the practice and policy of mental health in the United States. In colonial times, for example, it was a common belief that Blacks did not have the intellectual capacity to experience mental illness. In later periods runaway slaves were diagnosed with...