Research Catalog

Title

A borderlands view on Latinos, Latin Americans, and decolonization : rethinking mental health / Pilar Hernández-Wolfe.

Author

Hernández-Wolfe, Pilar, 1967-

Publication

Lanham : Jason Aronson, 2013.

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Description

140 pages; 35 cm

Summary

This book's theory is grounded in the framework of decolonization developed by the modernity/coloniality collective project, Transformative Family Therapy, and Just Therapy.

Subject

• Mestizos > Mental health > United States
• Hispanic Americans > Mental health
• Latin Americans > Mental health > United States
• Immigrants > Mental health > United States
• Decolonization > United States > Psychological aspects
• Borderlands > United States > Psychological aspects
• Psychotherapy > United States
• Social justice > United States
• Family Therapy > methods
• Colonialism
• Mental Health
• Social Justice
• Hispanic or Latino > psychology
• United States > Psychological aspects
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Chapter 1. Borderland Experiences : Migrations and Crosslinks -- Survival and Resistance/Resilience -- The Right to Be and the Journey to Coexist -- Decolonial Thought -- Chapter 2. A New Musical Score, a Horizon, and Possibilities for Meaning Making : A Decolonization Paradigm -- Colonialism -- Colonization of Being -- Coloniality -- "The Hubris of the Zero Point" -- Standpoint Epistemology -- Decolonization -- A Practical Illustration -- Summary -- Chapter 3. Nepantla : A Borderland Epistemology -- About Gloria Anzaldúa -- Nepantla : A Borderland Epistemology -- Coatlicue, Nepantla, and Mestiza Consciousness -- Mestiza Consciousness Journeys -- Intersecting Identities -- Intersectionality -- "We Don't Have These Problems Here; These Problems Occur in the U.S., not Here" -- Social Location and Epistemic Location -- Los Encuentros de Voces (Gathering of Voices) : A Nepantla Space -- Summary -- Chapter 4. Trauma, Resistance/Resilience, and the Colonial Difference -- Traumatic Stress and Resilience -- Resistance, Solidarity, Hope, and Liberation -- Nepantla : A Standpoint from Which to Address Trauma, Resistance, and Solidarity -- Chapter 5. Just and Loving Relationships Heal -- Power Differential Analysis -- Symptoms, Social Location, and Social Context -- A Team Approach with Embedded Structures for Empowerment and Accountability -- Redefinition of the Role of the Therapist -- Just Therapy -- Culture -- Socioeconomic Context -- The Just Therapy Process -- Transformative Family Therapy -- Sponsorship -- Critical Consciousness -- Accountability -- Empowerment -- Multisystemic Processes -- Cultural Equity -- A Symptomatic Child and an Affair -- Chapter 6. Thoughts Unfinished -- The Web of Life -- Cultural Equity and Cultural Humility -- Connection and Dialogue with Those for Whom Coloniality Is a Felt Experience -- The Basket of Knowledge and the Sweetening of the Word -- Appendix A.

ISBN

• 9780765709318 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 0765709317 (cloth : alkaline paper)
• 9780765709325 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012047019

OCLC

814706869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library