ABSTRACT
The aim of this book is to demonstrate how constructive change can be achieved when people, groups, and organizations experience problems. Our interest is to showcase interventions that involve holistic considerations of the needs of clients; however, our focus is on race. Specifically, we present descriptive information on ways in which mental health practitioners can integrate a conceptual, psychological understanding of race into their interventions in order to make more informed decisions about their clients’ distress and the strategies necessary for ending it. The audience with which we are most concerned in writing this book is the American public. These are the people who, at some point in their lives, may need the services of mental health professionals and who deserve interventions that will neither deny, minimize, nor exaggerate their race-related afflictions. Our targeted audience, however, is composed of practitioners or would-be practitioners in applied mental health professions who, we believe, can profit from this book by acquiring knowledge about the role of race in formulating case conceptualizations and interventions.
