Doherty, William J., PhD, Tai J. Mendenhall

Becoming a Citizen Therapist

Integrating Community Problem-Solving Into Your Work as a Healer

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows therapists how they can impact their communities by engaging fellow citizens in addressing broad-based health and social problems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: American Psychological Association
• Seitenzahl: 231
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781433839863
• ISBN-10: 1433839865
• Artikelnr.: 68540499

Autorenporträt

William J. Doherty and Tai J. Mendenhall

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Overview of Citizen Therapist Work
Introduction: What Can Therapists Offer the Larger World?
Chapter 1. Foundations of Citizen Therapist Work
Part II. Health Care Projects
Chapter 2. Family Education Diabetes Series: Tackling the Diabetes Epidemic
in an American Indian Community 
Chapter 3. Students Against Nicotine and Tobacco Addiction
Chapter 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 6. 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 10. Case Studies in Other Citizen Therapist Work
With Mark Meier, Marisol L. Meyer, Alexis R. Franklin, Ceewin N. Louder,
Joelle Dorsett, Marie Boursiquot White, Guerda Nicolas, and Brooke Miller
Chapter 11. Maintaining Citizen Health Care Projects Over Time  
Chapter 12. Funding and Evaluation in Citizen Health Care  
Chapter 13. Getting Started as a Citizen Therapist 
Chapter 14. The Citizen Therapist as a Person and as a Professional 
Afterword 
References 
Index 
About the Authors