The Handbook of Disability-Affirmative Systemic Therapy : Effective Clinical Care with Disabled Clients and their Families (Hardcover)

Section I: History, Law & the Sociopolitical Context of Disability

1.???? “he printed his name with his right hand *”

Steven T. Licardi, LCSW

2.???? An Overview of the History of Disability in the United States

Megan C. Carlos, Ph.D.

3.???? Disability and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S. Legal System

Solomon Furious Worlds, J.D. and Ellis Scout Cliff

4.???? Human Variation: Disability Models Explained

Angelica Guevara, Ph.D.

5.???? Ableism within Academia: Impact on the Lives of Disabled Persons

Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D.

Section II: Contextualizing Disability Through an Intersectional Lens

6.???? “Total Blindness”

Catlin Hernandez

7.???? The Intersection of Older Adulthood, Mental Health, and Disability

Pamela B. Teaster, Ph.D., and Onyinye F Mbanefo, M.S.

8.???? The Intersection of Race and Disability: Redefining Inclusive Therapeutic Practice

Angelica Guevara, Ph.D.

9.???? Intersecting Identities: Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People

Alan Santinele Martino, Ph.D., Melissa Miller, Jordan Parks, and Eleni Moumos

Section III: Foundations of Disability-Affirmative Therapy

10.? “Becoming Dyslexic”

Catherine Kapphahn

11.? Thinking Psychoanalytically about Therapy with Disabled People: The Need to Begin with Ourselves

Brian Watermeyer, Ph.D.

12.? The Counteractive Value of Disability Affirmative Therapy: How Well-meaning Assumptions (“I don’t see disability”) Impacts Disabled Clients

Katy Evans and Mel Halacre

13.? The Critical Role of Marriage and Family Therapists in Disability Discourses

Kami L. Gallus Ph.D., LMFT, Jennifer L. Jones, Ph.D., Garrett M. Jones, and Natalie M. Richardson, Ph.D., LMFT

14.? Couples Therapy with Disabled Partners: Integrating Disability into Relational Practice

Rebecca Kammes, Ph.D., LMFT, Madeline Barger, LMFT, and Debra L. Miller, Ph.D., LCSW

15.? Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part I): Historical Foundations and Philosophical Assumptions

Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC

16.? Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part II): Clinical Applications

Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC

17.? Accessible Therapy Spaces: Looking Beyond Infrastructure

Toni Saia, Ph.D., CRC and Gabrielle Ficchi Ph.D., LPC, LPCS, CRC

Section IV: Clinical Supervision and Program Development

18.? “I am.”

?Pramod Shankar

19.? Addressing The Missing Piece: Developing Inclusive Programmatic Structures, Modules, and Coursework

Brittany A. Williams, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, Derek, X. Seward, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC, and Kahyen Shin

20.? Multi-disciplinary Collaboration, Representation, and Ethical Research of Disability Experiences

Lydia Qualls, Ph.D., Lyndon Frommer, and Ashley Shew, Ph.D.

21.? Clinical Supervision of Disability-Specific Cases

Shakeela Gray, LGPC, NCC, Brittany A. Williams Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, and Briana Gaines, Ph.D., LPC, CCTP

22.? Disability Justice and the Person-of-the-Therapist Framework

James Tillett, Ph.D., Jody Russon, Ph.D., and Shalini Srinivasan, M.A.