Main description:

This book addresses the ways in which clinical psychologists ought to conceptualize and respond to the prejudice and oppression that their clients experience. Thus, the link between prejudice and oppression to psychopathology is explored. Basic scientific information about prejudice is reviewed, and the current status of the major minority groups is explored. Chapters examine the role of prejudice and oppression in institutional structures such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and professional organizations. The discussion addresses ways to assess these phenomena in individual cases and how to intervene in psychotherapy. The book ventures to evaluate the status of the profession of psychology with respect to prejudice, stigmatization, and oppression by critically examining evidence that the profession has responded adequately to these social problems. These issues are hard to talk about and are not well talked about in the field. This book is a push in the right direction.

Contents:

1 What is the current problem? An examination of the concepts and definitions of prejudice, privilege, stigma and oppression in the behavioral health professions. 2 Prejudice, Power and Injustice: Problems in Academia3 What is Modern Prejudice? 4 Prejudice, Stigma, Privilege, and Oppression Regarding African Americans5 Predjudice Regarding Latinx-Americans6 The Invisibility of Asian Americans in the United States: Impact on Mental and Physical Health7 Prejudice, Stigma, and Oppression on the Behavioral Health of Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders8 Disability--An integral Part of Being Human9 Psychology's Prejudice Against The Military10 Intersecting and Multiple Identities in Behavioral Health11 Identifying and Remediating Personal Prejudice: What Does the Evidence Say? 12 Micro-aggressions, Stereotypes, and Social Stigmatization in the Lived Experiences of Socially Marginalized Patient/Clients: A Social Justice Perspective13 Bias in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 and Psychopathology15 Discrimination, prejudice, and oppression and the development of psychopathology16 DSM Revisions and the 'Western Conundrum'17 Preventing Prejudice and Promoting Intergroup Relations18 Prejudice and the Ethical Code 19 Prejudice in the Health Care System: Remediation Strategies20 Microaggressions, Marginalization and Stress: Issues of Identity, Place and Home for Minority Faculty in Academia21 Microaggressions in Human Service Organizations 22 All You Have Gotten Is Tokenism 23 Ageism in Behavioral Health Care24 Rural Prejudice-Urban Bias: The Stories and Structures that Oppress Rural Communities25 Sociopolitical Values: The Neglected Factor in Culturally-Competent Psychotherapy 26 Calling a Cease Fire:Ending Psychology's Long Conflict with Religion