Interview with Ashley McGirt-Adair, author of The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care
Ashley McGirt-Adair, author of The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care recommends a fantastic selection of books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Ashley's book:
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The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care
An up-to-date and expert discussion of how to create a more culturally responsive mental health care system
In The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care, veteran psychotherapist and trauma specialist Ashley McGirt-Adair delivers an effective roadmap for culturally responsive mental health care that acknowledges, understands, and begins to heal the ways racial bias and stereotypes infiltrate counseling. Blending contemporary research, practical tools, and searing personal stories, McGirt-Adair offers both a personal narrative and a comprehensive guide to more equitable mental health care.
The Cost of Healing in Silence offers techniques for culturally responsive care that demonstrates how mental health care can be improved by offering therapy that is reflective of and sensitive to a range of identities. McGirt-Adair helps readers uncover the impacts of racial trauma and navigate the scars it leaves behind, offering culturally attuned techniques for healing and restoration that honor identity and community.
You'll also find:
Actionable guidance for recognizing and addressing racial bias in therapeutic settings
Inspiring amplifications of marginalized voices, including those whose pain has often been overlooked and dismissed
Strategies for improving access to Black therapists and implementing changes that prioritize cultural responsive care
Perfect for people of color who have faced discrimination, bias, or unequal treatment in healthcare settings and are seeking guidance on how to heal from these experiences, The Cost of Healing in Silence is also a must-read for healthcare professionals, educators and allies committed to transforming healthcare into a more equitable system.
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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy Degruy. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases)
Post traumatic slave syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy, contextualized the impact of American chattle slavery and the way we behave.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
In the 16th century, the beginning of African enslavement in the Americas until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and emancipation in 1865, Africans were hunted like animals, captured, sold, tortured, and raped. They experienced the worst kind of physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual abuse. Given such history, isn't it likely that many of the enslaved were severely traumatized? And did the trauma and the effects of such horrific abuse end with the abolition of slavery?
Emancipation was followed by one hundred more years of institutionalized subjugation through the enactment of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws, peonage, convict leasing, domestic terrorism and lynching. Today the violations continue, and when combined with the crimes of the past, they result in yet unmeasured injury. What do repeated traumas, endured generation after generation by a people produce? What impact have these ordeals had on African Americans today?
Dr. Joy DeGruy, answers these questions and more. With over thirty years of practical experience as a professional in the mental health field, Dr. DeGruy encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions, and behaviors through the lens of history and so gain a greater understanding of how centuries of slavery and oppression have impacted people of African descent in America.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America.
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Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases)
40 million dollar slave by William Rhoden 10/10
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
From Jackie Robinson to Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe, African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, their on-the-field heroics admired and stratospheric earnings envied. But for all their money, fame, and achievement, says New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden, black athletes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion-dollar industry their talent built.
Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s $40 Million Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nineteenth-century boxing rings to the history-making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden reveals that black athletes’ “evolution” has merely been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. He details the “conveyor belt” that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where they’re cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the media. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibility to the community with an apathy that borders on treason.
The power black athletes have today is as limited as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The primary difference is, today’s shackles are invisible.
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Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Description from Bookshop.org: (All links earn commission from purchases)
Where the Wild Things Are
One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper.
That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are.
Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins!
But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all.
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Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
Physical book
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
Da Book Joint
I love the activations at Da Book Joint, a mom-and-daughter-run bookstore in Chicago.
Many thanks to Ashley for recommending a fantastic selection of books! Please don't forget to check out The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care.
Daryl
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