A borderlands view on Latinos, Latin Americans, and decolonization
Subtitle: rethinking mental health
By: Pilar Hernández-Wolfe, PhD, LMFT
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, Maryland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780765709318; 9780765709325
Subjects: Mestizos; Mental health; Decolonization; Borderlands; Immigrants; Social justice; Ethnic relations; Hispanic Americans; Latin Americans; Psychological aspects; Psychotherapy
Description: This book's theory is grounded in the framework of decolonization developed by the modernity/coloniality collective project, Transformative Family Therapy, and Just Therapy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-137) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Borderland Experiences : Migrations and Crosslinks; title: Survival and Resistance/Resilience; title: The Right to Be and the Journey to Coexist; title: Decolonial Thought; title: Chapter 2. A New Musical Score, a Horizon, and Possibilities for Meaning Making : A Decolonization Paradigm; title: Colonialism; title: Colonization of Being; title: Coloniality; title: "The Hubris of the Zero Point"; title: Standpoint Epistemology; title: Decolonization; title: A Practical Illustration; title: Summary; title: Chapter 3. Nepantla : A Borderland Epistemology; title: About Gloria Anzaldúa; title: Nepantla : A Borderland Epistemology; title: Coatlicue, Nepantla, and Mestiza Consciousness; title: Mestiza Consciousness Journeys; title: Intersecting Identities; title: Intersectionality; title: "We Don't Have These Problems Here; These Problems Occur in the U.S., not Here"; title: Social Location and Epistemic Location; title: Los Encuentros de Voces (Gathering of Voices) : A Nepantla Space; title: Summary; title: Chapter 4. Trauma, Resistance/Resilience, and the Colonial Difference; title: Traumatic Stress and Resilience; title: Resistance, Solidarity, Hope, and Liberation; title: Nepantla : A Standpoint from Which to Address Trauma, Resistance, and Solidarity; title: Chapter 5. Just and Loving Relationships Heal; title: Power Differential Analysis; title: Symptoms, Social Location, and Social Context; title: A Team Approach with Embedded Structures for Empowerment and Accountability; title: Redefinition of the Role of the Therapist; title: Just Therapy; title: Culture; title: Socioeconomic Context; title: The Just Therapy Process; title: Transformative Family Therapy; title: Sponsorship; title: Critical Consciousness; title: Accountability; title: Empowerment; title: Multisystemic Processes; title: Cultural Equity; title: A Symptomatic Child and an Affair; title: Chapter 6. Thoughts Unfinished; title: The Web of Life; title: Cultural Equity and Cultural Humility; title: Connection and Dialogue with Those for Whom Coloniality Is a Felt Experience; title: The Basket of Knowledge and the Sweetening of the Word; title: Appendix A.