Racism and Racial Identity: Reflections on Urban Practice in Mental Health and Social Services
Racism and Racial Identity: Reflections on Urban Practice in Mental Health and Social Services has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Emotional Abuse, Volume 6, Numbers 2/3 2006.
Racism and Racial Identity: Reflections on Urban Practice in Mental Health and Social Services
Lisa V. Blitz, PhD, LCSW
Mary Pender Greene, LCSW-R, ACSW
Editors
Racism and Racial Identity: Reflections on Urban Practice in Mental Health and Social Services has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Emotional Abuse, Volume 6, Numbers 2/3 2006.
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Racism and racial identity : reflections on urban practice in mental health and social services / Lisa V. Blitz, Mary Pender Greene, editors.
p. cm.
Co-published simultaneously as Journal of emotional abuse, Volume 6, Numbers 2/3 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-3108-2 (hard cover. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-7890-3108-6 (hard cover. : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7890-3109-9 (soft cover. : alk. paper)
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1. Social work with minoritiesUnited States. 2. Social work with immigrantsUnited States 3. MinoritiesMental healthUnited States. 4. MinoritiesMental Health ServicesUnited States. 5. Social service and race relationsUnited States. 6. Racism in social servicesUnited States. 7. RacismUnited StatesPsychological aspects. 8. City dwellersServices forUnited States. I. Blitz, Lisa V. II. Greene, Mary Pender. III. Journal of emotional abuse.
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We would like to dedicate this issue to the Peoples Institute for Survival and Beyond, in gratitude for teaching us the powerful sociopolitical and historical analysis of racism that has enriched our knowledge, improved our practice, and fueled our antiracist organizing efforts. It is our sincere hope that others will join us in our quest to undo racism within our profession.
About the Editors
Lisa V. Blitz, PhD, LCSW, is Director of JBFCS Genesis, an emergency domesitc violence shelter for families, and teaches in the JBFCS/Martha K. Selig Educational Institute for social workers and the JBFCS/Adult Milieu Training Institute for residential direct care staff. She practice has a private psychotherapy practice in New York City.
Mary Pender Greene, LCSW-R, ACSW, is practice Chief of Social Work Services at the Jewish Board of Family and Childrens Services. A past president of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, she is on the executive committee of Black Agency Executives and is a member of the New York State Education Social Work Board.
CONTENTS
Mary Pender Greene
Alan Siskind
Warren C. Lyons
Anderson J. Franklin
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Shalonda Kelly
Barbara L. Edwards
Dadrene Hine-St. Hilaire
Pia Hargrove
Janet A. Geller
Jacqueline Miller
Patricia Churchill
Kathleen McGlade
Joseph Ackerman
Lisa V. Blitz
Linda C. Illidge
Caroline Peacock
George Daniels
Libbe H. Madsen
Benjamin G. Kohl, Jr.
Eileen P. McGann
Rene T. Chapman
Lesley Samuel-Young
Lisa V. Blitz
About the Contributors
Robert Abramovitz, MD, is Chief Psychiatrist at the Jewish Board of Family and Childrens Services (JBFCS), and Director of the Center for Trauma Program Innovation (CTPI). He is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) and Adjunct Research Scholar at the Columbia University School of Social Work.
Joseph Ackerman, LCSW, has had a distinguished career working with children and parents as counselor, program director, and executive. He directed a crisis program for children and mothers and developed a clinical consultation program that placed mental health, domestic violence, and substance abuse experts in child protective units so decision makers would opt to support mothers rather than remove children. Mr. Ackerman is currently Assistant Director of JBFCS Bronx Real Services, which provides a broad range of community treatment and residential services for adults challenged by mental illness.
Dr. Nancy Boyd-Franklin, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology. She has written on the treatment of African American families, extended family issues, spirituality and religion, home-based family therapy, group therapy for Black women, HIV and AIDS, parent and family support groups, community empowerment and the Multisystems Model. She is the author of Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystems Approach (Guilford Press, 1989) and an editor of Children, Families and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial and Psychotherapeutic Issues (Guilford Press, 1995). Her book with Dr. Brenna Bry, Reaching Out in Family Therapy: Home-Based, School and Community Interventions was released by Guilford Press in 2000. Her latest book, Boys Into Men: Raising Our African American Teenage Sons, with A. J. Franklin and Pamela Toussaint, was published by Dutton Press in 2000.
