Continuing Education for Psychologists
Books especially selected for psychologists and other mental health workers dealing with issues related to race, ethnicity, reconstruction, and cultural diversity. We offer them here for inspiration, foundational knowledge, and clinical pathways.
AFRICAN AMERICAN PATIENTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression
Ruth Fallenbaum, Ph.D.
Integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to understand the social and historical dimensions of psychological development. Psychological consequences of slavery and Jim Crow, the black patient and the white therapist, the toll of even "small" racist enactments, the black patient's uneasy relationship with health-care providers, and a revisiting of the idea of "black rage" and the psychological potential of reparation for centuries of slave labor and legalized wage and property theft are discussed. 6 CE Credits
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILD
Development and Challenges, 2nd Edition
Yvette Harris, Ph.D, and James A. Graham, Ph.D
The authors present an evenhanded examination of the challenges affecting the lives of African American children that emphasizes their strengths and resilience rather than deficits. 8 CE Credits
BEHAVE
The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? 22 CE Credits
BLIND SPOTS
Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do About It
Max H. Bazerman and Anne E. Tenbrunsel
When confronted with an ethical dilemma, most of us like to think we would stand up for our principles. But we are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, two leading business ethicists examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right, how we act unethically without meaning to, and how we can bridge the gap between who we are and who we want to be. 6 CE Credits
THE BROKEN LADDER
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
Keith Payne, Ph.D.
The problem of income inequality has been exposed for some time, but less attention has been paid to the implications for people's psychological welfare. In this book a prominent social psychologist shows how inequality not only divides us economically, but has profound consequences for how we think, how we respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and even how we view moral concepts such as justice and fairness. With the current coronavirus crisis, this fissure in our system is now starkly revealed as jobs and businesses are halted. With a deeper understanding of the psychological and social impacts, psychologists are better equipped to help their patients overcome the flawed perception of poverty as the result of individual character failings and may even help change the underlying problem of inequality. 8 CE credits
CASTE
The Origins of Our Discontent
Isabel Wilkerson
A powerful caste system influences people's lives and behavior. Linking the caste systems of America, India, and Nazi Germany, Wilkerson explores eight pillars that underlie caste systems across civilizations, including divine will, bloodlines, stigma, and others. Using riveting stories about people, she shows the ways that the insidious force of caste is experienced every day. She documents how the Nazis studied the racial systems in America to plan their treatment of the Jews; she discusses why the logic of caste requires that there be a bottom rung for those in the middle to measure themselves against; she describes the surprising health costs of caste in depression and life expectancy, and the effects of this hierarchy on our culture and politics. She points forward to ways America can move beyond the artificial and destructive separations of human divisions, toward hope in our common humanity. 13 CE Credits
CHANGING MINDS
The Art and Science of Changing Our Own and Other People's Minds
Howard Gardner
An eminent Harvard psychologist offers an original framework for understanding exactly how to help clients shift their perceptions and change their thinking patterns and behavior in decision-making. 7 CE Credits
COUNSELING THE CULTURALLY DIVERSE, 8th Edition
Theory and Practice
Derald Wing Sue, Ph.D, David Sue, Ph.D, Helen A. Neville, Ph.D, and Laura Smith, Ph.D
This is the fully revised, 8th edition of the market-leading textbook on multicultural counseling. It covers the most recent research and theoretical formulations; the concept of "cultural humility" as central to competence in counselor education and practice; the roles of white allies in multicultural and social justice counseling; and the concept of "minority stress" and its implications in work with marginalized populations. 18 CE Credits
CULTURAL ISSUES IN PLAY THERAPY
Eliana Gil & Athena A. Drewes (Editors)
The book examines how cultural factors may influence the ways children express themselves through play, the feelings they associate with different activities, and the responses of children and parents to particular interventions. Specific issues are highlighted for working with African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian American children. Includes suggestions for setting up a therapeutic playroom that is engaging and welcoming to all. 5 CE Credits
CULTURALLY RELEVANT ETHICAL DECISION-MAKING IN COUNSELING
Rick Houser, Felicia L. Wilczenski & MaryAnna Ham
A hermeneutic orientation and framework to address contextual issues in ethical decision-making in counseling and psychotherapy is presented. The authors incorporate broad perspectives of ethical theories which are grounded in various worldviews and sensitive to cultural issues. 11 CE Credits
DIFFERENCE AND DISCRIMINATION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING
Sue Marshall
For most therapists an attitude of acceptance and non-judgmentalism is fundamental to their view of practice. However, in seeking to be non-judgmental, therapists may run the risk of concealing their own prejudices. It is only by facing up to these attitudes and exploring them that therapists are able to fully relate to their clients and help them effectively. 6 CE Credits
EMPATHY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
How Therapists and Clients Understand Each Other
Frank M. Staemmler
The author of this scholarly volume seeks to improve our understanding of the immense therapeutic potential that the human capacity for empathy holds, and to improve our use of it in therapeutic practice. 9 CE Credits
THE INVISIBLE BORDER
Latinos in America
Samuel Roll, Ph.D, Marc Irwin, Ph.D
How do Anglos and Latinos successfully live and work together, given the considerable differences in values and behaviors that exist between the two cultures? A must-read for those who want to get the know and live peacefully among the fastest-growing minority population in the U.S. 6 CE Credits
THE MIND CLUB
Who Thinks, What Feels, and Why It Matters
Daniel M. Wegner and Kurt Gray
Social psychology research on how we construct models of how other minds work can help psychologists perceive, identify, and explain the mental processes of their clients. The Mind Club explores the moral dimensions of mind perception, revealing the surprisingly simple basis for what compels us to love and hate, to harm and to protect. 10 CE Credits
THE MYTH OF RACIAL COLOR BLINDNESS
Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact
Helen A. Neville, Ph.D, Miguel E. Gallardo, Ph.D, and Derald Wing Sui, Ph.D
Massive protests following the death of George Floyd provide stark evidence of the continued impact of systemic racism in the US. In this volume, top scholars in psychology, education, and sociology dissect the myth of color blindness and the urgent need to create equal access and opportunities for all. 9 CE Credits
MORAL TRIBES
Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
Joshua Greene
Our brains were designed for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and fighting off everyone else (Them). The global pandemic forces us into a shared space, with epic clashes and new opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. 11 CE Credits
THE POLITICAL MIND
A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and its Politics
George Lakoff
Lakoff's passionate, erudite, and groundbreaking book describes two dominant mental sets in American politics, how they are related to frames, prototypes and metaphors, and how they differ in ideas about freedom, equality and democracy. 9 CE Credits
PRIMAL LEADERSHIP
Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, & Annie McKee
Leaders excel through skills and smarts combined with empathy and self-awareness. Psychologists are in a unique position to highlight the importance of emotional intelligence in effective leadership. 12 CE Credits
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PREJUDICE
From Attitudes to Social Action
Lynne Jackson
This accessible yet scholarly review of social psychological theory on prejudice describes essentialist and social constructivist approaches to understanding differences. It provides evolutionary and psychodynamic explanations of prejudice, including theories of ideology, intergroup relations, and the development of prejudice in children. It discusses intergroup and institutional strategies and collective action to promote social justice. 7 CE Credits
REDIRECT
The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
Timothy D. Wilson, Ph.D.
We all tell ourselves stories to make sense of the world. A World-renowned psychologist proposes a radical new view that although these narratives can be extremely hard to change, they can change surprisingly quickly if tweaked in the right way. Wilson blows the whistle on failed attempts to solve a broad range of problems and reframes them with new stories, including applications for lowering prejudice against minority groups, and closing the achievement gap in education. 9 CE Credits
THE RIGHTEOUS MIND
Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Joshua Greene
Why can't our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions. His starting point is "moral intuition" – the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. He shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures and blends his own research findings with those of anthropologists, historians, and other psychologists to draw a map of the moral domain. Rather than arguing that we are innately altruistic, he makes a more subtle claim, that we are fundamentally groupish. It is our groupishness that leads to our greatest joys, our religious divisions, and our political affiliations. By understanding what each side is right about, we can flourish as a nation. 11 CE Credits
SITUATIONS MATTER
Understanding How Context Transforms Your World
Sam Sommers, Ph.D
Every day and in all walks of life, we overlook the enormous power of situations, of context in our lives. He argues that by understanding the powerful influence of context and using this knowledge to rethink how we see the world, we can be more effective at addressing a wide range of issues including bias, attraction, character-based assumptions, crowds, culture, and racism. 9 CE Credits
WHITE FRAGILITY
Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo, Ph.D
Illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and allows us to understand racism. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. Dr. DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. 6 CE Credits
THE WISDOM OF CROWDS
James Surowiecki
The author explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant, and better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. He shows how this idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. 9 CE Credits
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