Trauma and Mental Health Social Work With Urban Populations African-Centered Clinical Interventions | Health & Social Care

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Addressing the social problems associated with trauma and mental health amongst African Americans in urban environments this book uses an African-centered lens to critique the most common practice models and interventions currently employed by social workers in the field. Divided into four parts and grounded in traditional African cultural values it argues that basic key values in a new clinical model for mental health diagnosis are: A spiritual component Collective/group approach Focus on wholeness Oneness with Nature Emphasis on truth justice balance harmony reciprocity righteousness and order Being free from racism sexism classism and other forms of oppression this African-centered appro…