Anti Racism/Anti Oppression Resources

Community

·        Laboratory for Culture and Mental Health Disparities, Dir. Dr. Monnica Williams

Articles

·        Why We Need to be Anti-Racist Therapists for All Our Clients, Lyrica Fils-Aimé in Psychology Today

·        How Diverse is the Psychology Workforce, Luona Lin, Karen Stamm, and Peggy Christidis (APA)

·        The Elephant Is Not Pink: Talking About White, Black,and Brown to Achieve Excellence in Clinical Practice, Mary Pender Greene and Lisa V. Blitz

·        Re-Conceptualizing “Trauma”:Examining the Mental Health Impact of Discrimination,Torture & Migration for Racialized Groups in Toronto, via Across Boundaries

·        Decolonizing Mental Health: The Importance of an Oppression-Focused Mental Health System, Karina Zapata in the Calgary Journal

Workshops

·        Embodied Anti-Racism: A Mindfulness Way for Therapists and Helping Professionals, Francesca Marguerite Maximé

Podcasts

·        Microaggressions, Mental Health Disparities, and Racial Trauma with Monnica Williams, Psychologists Off the Clock

Caversham Books - Discrimination + Racism

Recommendations: 

·        The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness: Implications for Clinical Practice and Beyond, Kenneth V. Hardy 

·        Selves as Solutions to Social Inequalities (Series: Elements in Applied Social Psychology), Tiffany N. Brannon, Peter H. Fisher and Abigail J. Greydanus

·        Racial Trauma: Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Trauma Rooted in Racism, Monnica T. Williams

·        The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness, Rhonda V. Magee (Foreword by John Kabat-Zinn)

·        The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias, Jessica Nordell

·        Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy, Dwight Turner

·        Eliminating Race-Based Mental Health Disparities: Promoting Equity and Culturally Responsive Care Across Settings*