Racial Trauma, Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD
Racial Trauma, Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD
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Racial Trauma
Clinical Strategies and Techniques for Healing Invisible Wounds

Author: Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD

Narrator: Terrence Kidd

Unabridged: 15 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/21/2023


Synopsis

An urgent, wide-ranging account of racial trauma and its psychological impact.

Racial trauma is an inescapable byproduct of persistent exposure to repressive circumstances that emotionally, psychologically, and physically devastates one's sense of self while simultaneously depleting one's strategies for coping. It is a life-altering and debilitating experience that affects countless numbers of people of color over multiple generations. Unfortunately, the failure to consider the interrelationship between racial oppression and trauma limits clinicians' ability to work effectively with many people of color who live amid sociocultural conditions that are injurious to their psyches and souls. Even when therapy is trauma-informed, it rarely devotes adequate attention to racial oppression and the pervasive trauma associated with it.

This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive overview of the anatomy of racial trauma and the debilitating hidden wounds associated with it. Racially sensitive trauma-informed interventions and strategies that centralize race and racial oppression in every facet of the therapeutic process and relationship are meticulously highlighted, making this a must-listen resource for all practicing and aspiring clinicians.

About Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD

Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, is a clinician and organizational consultant at the Eikenberg Insititute for Relationships in New York City, where he also serves as director. He is professor emeritus at Syracuse University, where he also served as director of clinical training. Dr. Hardy maintains a private practice in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Morgan

CURCAL READ. 5/5 Much to share/discuss here. But first. How about (yet) another (awkward white) self disclosure statement. NOTE I am a 56 year old, white, cis (sis - see comment thread😜), heterosexual, professional (therapist) male. I want to acknowledge that it may be problematic for me to comment o......more

Goodreads review by Jessica

I can't recommend this book highly enough -- such a worthwhile purchase for continuing education. I will re-read and reference this book often. Racial trauma is something every clinician needs to know about regardless of their specialty. Grateful that Dr. Hardy shared this work and expertise.......more

This was a nice book with ideas on how to manage racial trauma. It was a little heavy on blacks and I work more with native and Latino clients but I can certainly use the ideas to help me do a better job addressing what they experience. He was well written and I liked how he addressed the problems.......more