Pilar Hernández‐Wolfe
Biographic Data
| ID | 5454549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pilar Hernández‐Wolfe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pilar |
| FAMILY NAME | Hernández‐Wolfe |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFE P H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lewis & Clark College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Saberes e interculturalidad: Dilemas y aprendizajes en una experiencia con afrodescendientes colombianas
(analítico): Este artículo describe los resultados de la investigación: Diálogos afrocéntricos y occidentales en el entrenamiento de terapeutas comunitarios, que se desarrolló en 2013 con una metodología de acción participativa. El propósito del estudio fue analizar cómo un grupo de mujeres colombianas afrodescendientes, desplazadas de la Costa Pacífica en la ciudad de Cali, construyeron sentido en un encuentro pedagógico con un grupo de estudian…
Nepantla Moments in Therapy: A Clinical Example With Latinx Immigrants
Therapy can be a site of decolonization in which the traumatic experiences of individuals, couples, families, and communities can be transformed by liberation-based frameworks. In this essay I articulate how key concepts from De Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South, such as the ecologies of temporality, recognition, and productivity, can be integrated within a Mujerista therapy framework to address trauma and resilience. Through a clinical ex…
Helping Injured Animals Helps the Helper, Too: Vicarious Resilience and the Animal–Human Bond
In this article we report on an exploratory study that focused on the positive impacts that helping injured animals recover had on the helpers, and these impacts are related to the concept of vicarious resilience. We examined the results of 20 informant interviews to determine how and what they learned from animals and how they incorporated that learning into their lives. The following themes emerged: perspective taking, expansion of sensorial aw…
Toward Grounding Transnational Feminism in Borderland Spaces
This article discusses our efforts to ground transnational feminist practice locally in borderland spaces and to detach this practice, to the extent possible, from the overall structure of Euro-centered knowledge in mental health. We recognize that transnational training and research in psychology has the potential to offer scholar-practitioners the opportunity to engage in transformative intercultural learning processes. However, these processes…
Ecoinformed Couple and Family Therapy, Systems Thinking, and Social Justice
This essay discusses key epistemological and social issues contributing to the ways in which the field of couple and family therapy has remained anthropocentric and discusses how both Gregory Bateson and a decolonization perspective offer a biocentric view in line with ecological systemic thinking. Clinical vignettes are included to illustrate implications for a systemic eco-informed approach to therapy
Vicarious Resilience: A Comprehensive Review
Vicarious resilience has been defined as the positive impact on and personal growth of therapists resulting from exposure to their clients’ resilience. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the qualitative and quantitative research conducted in the past 10 years, and offers suggestions for future research
Community Mothers and Vicarious Resilience: An Exploration in a Colombian Community
This study explores vicarious resilience process in early childhood education. It addresses the question of how low-income community mothers who are involved in child care and education for other low-income working caretakers are affected by the children’s resilience. It focuses on the women’s interpretations of the children and caretaker stories’ experiences and stories, and how they make sense of the impact these experiences and stories have on…
Development of the Vicarious Resilience Scale (VRS): A measure of positive effects of working with trauma survivors
The VRS possesses sound psychometric properties and can be utilized in supervision and training contexts and for self-assessment by professionals working with trauma survivors to aid the recognition and cultivation of vicarious resilience. (PsycINFO Database Record
Vicarious resilience: Complexities and variations
This article presents results from a qualitative study further exploring the concept of vicarious resilience. Thirteen therapists working with survivors of torture in 3 different locations were interviewed to better understand the complexities and variations of vicarious resilience. The analysis focuses on the therapists' perception of clients' resilience and the therapists' awareness of how this affects the therapists themselves. Four major them…
Transnational Family Therapy Training: A Collaborative Learning Experience in Cultural Equity and Humility
Transnational training experiences offer future family therapists unique possibilities to challenge habitual ways of learning, test their knowledge in new contexts, and develop meaningful tasks that foster critical thinking and timely application of knowledge and skills. This training incorporated global and local issues of equity, history, and social positioning from a collaborative learning perspective to develop family therapy competency in cu…
Vicarious Resilience, Vicarious Trauma, and Awareness of Equity in Trauma Work
This qualitative study examines the coexistence of vicarious resilience and vicarious trauma and explores the inclusion of intersectional identities in trauma work with torture survivors in specialized programs across the United States. A constructionist framework and a method of constant comparison discovered themes that speak about the effects of witnessing how clients cope constructively with adversity, and intersectional identities in social …
A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization: Rethinking Mental Health
Borderland Experiences: Migrations and Crosslinks Chapter 2. A New Musical Score, a Horizon, and Possibilities for Meaning Making: A Decolonization Paradigm Chapter 3. Nepantla: A Borderland Epistemology Chapter 4. Trauma, Resistance/Resilience, and the Colonial Difference Chapter 5. Just and Loving Relationships Heal Chapter 6. Thoughts Unfinished Appendix A References Index About the Author
Social Privilege and Accountability: Lessons from Family Therapy Educators
This study focuses on the process by which white family therapy scholar activists learn over time to acknowledge and become accountable for their social privilege. Comparing two case studies, the authors analyze the complexities of micro- and macro- systems relative to interconnected social positions of race, class, gender, age, professional role, and sexual orientation. Implications for family therapy education, supervision, and practice are add…
Decolonization and “Mental” Health: A Mestiza's Journey in the Borderlands
This article introduces the contributions of the Latin American decolonizing paradigm as a framework to understand Latina's hybrid experiences and ways of being in the U.S. and Latin America. It integrates borderland epistemology to address other knowledges involving mental health practices with case illustrations. In addition, it advances the need to integrate the notions of cultural equity and cultural humility as a way to address contemporary …
Altruism Born of Suffering: How Colombian Human Rights Activists Transform Pain Into Prosocial Action
This study examines the impetuses for altruistic behavior of Colombian human rights activists, all of whom experienced politically based trauma. Thirty-five human rights activists participated in individual interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009. Results of the analysis are illustrated in nine themes: affirmation of self despite fear, indignation, a search for meaning, spirituality, justice to build peace, leaving a legacy of peace and agency…
Vicarious Resilience, Vicarious Trauma, and Awareness of Equity in Trauma Work
This qualitative study examines the coexistence of vicarious resilience and vicarious trauma and explores the inclusion of intersectional identities in trauma work with torture survivors in specialized programs across the United States. A constructionist framework and a method of constant comparison discovered themes that speak about the effects of witnessing how clients cope constructively with adversity, and intersectional identities in social …
Decolonization and “Mental” Health: A Mestiza's Journey in the Borderlands
This article introduces the contributions of the Latin American decolonizing paradigm as a framework to understand Latina's hybrid experiences and ways of being in the U.S. and Latin America. It integrates borderland epistemology to address other knowledges involving mental health practices with case illustrations. In addition, it advances the need to integrate the notions of cultural equity and cultural humility as a way to address contemporary …
Altruism Born of Suffering: How Colombian Human Rights Activists Transform Pain Into Prosocial Action
This study examines the impetuses for altruistic behavior of Colombian human rights activists, all of whom experienced politically based trauma. Thirty-five human rights activists participated in individual interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009. Results of the analysis are illustrated in nine themes: affirmation of self despite fear, indignation, a search for meaning, spirituality, justice to build peace, leaving a legacy of peace and agency…
Nepantla Moments in Therapy: A Clinical Example With Latinx Immigrants
Therapy can be a site of decolonization in which the traumatic experiences of individuals, couples, families, and communities can be transformed by liberation-based frameworks. In this essay I articulate how key concepts from De Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South, such as the ecologies of temporality, recognition, and productivity, can be integrated within a Mujerista therapy framework to address trauma and resilience. Through a clinical ex…
Social Privilege and Accountability: Lessons from Family Therapy Educators
This study focuses on the process by which white family therapy scholar activists learn over time to acknowledge and become accountable for their social privilege. Comparing two case studies, the authors analyze the complexities of micro- and macro- systems relative to interconnected social positions of race, class, gender, age, professional role, and sexual orientation. Implications for family therapy education, supervision, and practice are add…
Toward Grounding Transnational Feminism in Borderland Spaces
This article discusses our efforts to ground transnational feminist practice locally in borderland spaces and to detach this practice, to the extent possible, from the overall structure of Euro-centered knowledge in mental health. We recognize that transnational training and research in psychology has the potential to offer scholar-practitioners the opportunity to engage in transformative intercultural learning processes. However, these processes…
Community Mothers and Vicarious Resilience: An Exploration in a Colombian Community
This study explores vicarious resilience process in early childhood education. It addresses the question of how low-income community mothers who are involved in child care and education for other low-income working caretakers are affected by the children’s resilience. It focuses on the women’s interpretations of the children and caretaker stories’ experiences and stories, and how they make sense of the impact these experiences and stories have on…
Altruism Born of Suffering: How Colombian Human Rights Activists Transform Pain Into Prosocial Action
This study examines the impetuses for altruistic behavior of Colombian human rights activists, all of whom experienced politically based trauma. Thirty-five human rights activists participated in individual interviews conducted between 1998 and 2009. Results of the analysis are illustrated in nine themes: affirmation of self despite fear, indignation, a search for meaning, spirituality, justice to build peace, leaving a legacy of peace and agency…
Decolonization and “Mental” Health: A Mestiza's Journey in the Borderlands
This article introduces the contributions of the Latin American decolonizing paradigm as a framework to understand Latina's hybrid experiences and ways of being in the U.S. and Latin America. It integrates borderland epistemology to address other knowledges involving mental health practices with case illustrations. In addition, it advances the need to integrate the notions of cultural equity and cultural humility as a way to address contemporary …
A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization: Rethinking Mental Health
Borderland Experiences: Migrations and Crosslinks Chapter 2. A New Musical Score, a Horizon, and Possibilities for Meaning Making: A Decolonization Paradigm Chapter 3. Nepantla: A Borderland Epistemology Chapter 4. Trauma, Resistance/Resilience, and the Colonial Difference Chapter 5. Just and Loving Relationships Heal Chapter 6. Thoughts Unfinished Appendix A References Index About the Author
Social Privilege and Accountability: Lessons from Family Therapy Educators
This study focuses on the process by which white family therapy scholar activists learn over time to acknowledge and become accountable for their social privilege. Comparing two case studies, the authors analyze the complexities of micro- and macro- systems relative to interconnected social positions of race, class, gender, age, professional role, and sexual orientation. Implications for family therapy education, supervision, and practice are add…
Vicarious Resilience, Vicarious Trauma, and Awareness of Equity in Trauma Work
This qualitative study examines the coexistence of vicarious resilience and vicarious trauma and explores the inclusion of intersectional identities in trauma work with torture survivors in specialized programs across the United States. A constructionist framework and a method of constant comparison discovered themes that speak about the effects of witnessing how clients cope constructively with adversity, and intersectional identities in social …
Transnational Family Therapy Training: A Collaborative Learning Experience in Cultural Equity and Humility
Transnational training experiences offer future family therapists unique possibilities to challenge habitual ways of learning, test their knowledge in new contexts, and develop meaningful tasks that foster critical thinking and timely application of knowledge and skills. This training incorporated global and local issues of equity, history, and social positioning from a collaborative learning perspective to develop family therapy competency in cu…
Development of the Vicarious Resilience Scale (VRS): A measure of positive effects of working with trauma survivors
The VRS possesses sound psychometric properties and can be utilized in supervision and training contexts and for self-assessment by professionals working with trauma survivors to aid the recognition and cultivation of vicarious resilience. (PsycINFO Database Record
Vicarious resilience: Complexities and variations
This article presents results from a qualitative study further exploring the concept of vicarious resilience. Thirteen therapists working with survivors of torture in 3 different locations were interviewed to better understand the complexities and variations of vicarious resilience. The analysis focuses on the therapists' perception of clients' resilience and the therapists' awareness of how this affects the therapists themselves. Four major them…
Community Mothers and Vicarious Resilience: An Exploration in a Colombian Community
This study explores vicarious resilience process in early childhood education. It addresses the question of how low-income community mothers who are involved in child care and education for other low-income working caretakers are affected by the children’s resilience. It focuses on the women’s interpretations of the children and caretaker stories’ experiences and stories, and how they make sense of the impact these experiences and stories have on…
Ecoinformed Couple and Family Therapy, Systems Thinking, and Social Justice
This essay discusses key epistemological and social issues contributing to the ways in which the field of couple and family therapy has remained anthropocentric and discusses how both Gregory Bateson and a decolonization perspective offer a biocentric view in line with ecological systemic thinking. Clinical vignettes are included to illustrate implications for a systemic eco-informed approach to therapy
Vicarious Resilience: A Comprehensive Review
Vicarious resilience has been defined as the positive impact on and personal growth of therapists resulting from exposure to their clients’ resilience. This review provides a comprehensive summary of the qualitative and quantitative research conducted in the past 10 years, and offers suggestions for future research
Helping Injured Animals Helps the Helper, Too: Vicarious Resilience and the Animal–Human Bond
In this article we report on an exploratory study that focused on the positive impacts that helping injured animals recover had on the helpers, and these impacts are related to the concept of vicarious resilience. We examined the results of 20 informant interviews to determine how and what they learned from animals and how they incorporated that learning into their lives. The following themes emerged: perspective taking, expansion of sensorial aw…
Toward Grounding Transnational Feminism in Borderland Spaces
This article discusses our efforts to ground transnational feminist practice locally in borderland spaces and to detach this practice, to the extent possible, from the overall structure of Euro-centered knowledge in mental health. We recognize that transnational training and research in psychology has the potential to offer scholar-practitioners the opportunity to engage in transformative intercultural learning processes. However, these processes…
Saberes e interculturalidad: Dilemas y aprendizajes en una experiencia con afrodescendientes colombianas
(analítico): Este artículo describe los resultados de la investigación: Diálogos afrocéntricos y occidentales en el entrenamiento de terapeutas comunitarios, que se desarrolló en 2013 con una metodología de acción participativa. El propósito del estudio fue analizar cómo un grupo de mujeres colombianas afrodescendientes, desplazadas de la Costa Pacífica en la ciudad de Cali, construyeron sentido en un encuentro pedagógico con un grupo de estudian…
Nepantla Moments in Therapy: A Clinical Example With Latinx Immigrants
Therapy can be a site of decolonization in which the traumatic experiences of individuals, couples, families, and communities can be transformed by liberation-based frameworks. In this essay I articulate how key concepts from De Sousa Santos Epistemologies of the South, such as the ecologies of temporality, recognition, and productivity, can be integrated within a Mujerista therapy framework to address trauma and resilience. Through a clinical ex…
Psychology (13 works) · Psychotherapist (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychological resilience (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Resilience and Mental Health (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)