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7 - Building Strong and Effective Alliances with Black Female Clients

from Part II - Therapy Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

Donna Baptiste  and
Adia Gooden
Donna Baptiste
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
Adia Gooden
Affiliation:
Unconditionally Worthy, Co.
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Summary

In this chapter, we highlight key approaches to building strong therapeutic relationships with Black female clients. We also review the challenges that therapists may face in building strong therapeutic relationships with Black women and provide strategies to overcome these challenges. We discuss the occurrence of microaggressions in therapy and provide specific strategies for how to frame conversations about micro-aggressions to validate historical and present client experiences both in and outside of therapy.

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therapeutic alliancetherapuetic relationshipbondstasksgoalsmicroaggressions
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Promoting Black Women's Mental Health
What Practitioners Should Know and Do
 , pp. 163 - 188
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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