Clinical Practice with African American Men
What to Consider and What to Do
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8092952 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samuel R Aymer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-34 |
| Publication date | 2010-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Smith College Studies in Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7317 • E-ISSN: 1553-0426 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00377310903504908 |
| OpenAlex | W2016666327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 23 |
Racial profiling, workplace discrimination, health disparity, and daily exposure to microaggression are factors that affect the emotional well‐being of African American men. This article explores how psychotherapeutic work can help this group cope with the effects of racial oppression as well as their own individual idiosyncratic processes. Franklin's (1999 Franklin, A. 1999. Invisibility syndrome and racial identity development in psychotherapy and with counseling African American men.. Counseling Psychologist, 27: 761–793. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) invisible syndrome and aspects of Majors and Mancini Billson's (1992 Majors, R. and Mancini Billson, J. 1992. Cool pose: The dilemmas of Black manhood in American, New York: Lexington Books. [Google Scholar]) cool pose paradigm provide a framework for grounding this discourse. Likewise, the ideas presented in Winnicott's (1965 Winnicott, D. W. 1965. The maturational process and the facilitating environment: Studies in the theory of emotional development, Madison, CT: International Universities Press. [Google Scholar]) True self/false self formulation are placed in an ecological framework, which illuminates how African American men adapt to social injustice. Correspondingly, psychodynamic and Afrocentric theories are presented as practice considerations for understanding the narratives of African American men. Finally, this article suggests that clinical work with African American men can facilitate functional coping strategies, which in turn can diminish feelings of invisibility and release their true selves
African american · Feeling · Injustice · Invisibility · Narrative · Oppression · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Psychodynamics · Sociology · Anthropology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Early Childhood Education and Development · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Gender Studies · Social Psychology
Help-Seeking Attitudes, Mental Health Stigma, and Self-Concealment Among African American College Students
Racial Microaggressions
A Case for Including the “Lived Experience” of African American Men in Batterers’ Treatment
The Discipline’s Escalating Whisper
Trayvon Martin
Colorism and Historical Trauma
Teaching While Black and Male and Preparing Students for Urban Social Work Practice Matters
Black women’s experience of colorist microaggressions
The Utility of Social Class, Race, and Gender in Clinical Practice
Excess Mortality in Harlem
Self-Efficacy
Racism and mental health into the 21st century
The Contour and Meaning of Afrocentric Social Work
What’s There and What’s Not
Racial discrimination and blood pressure
Beyond Invisibility of African American Males
Fatherhood in Contemporary Black America
Invisibility Syndrome and Racial Identity Development in Psychotherapy and Counseling African American Men
Examining African Self-Consciousness and Black Racial Identity as Predictors of Black Men's Psychological Well-Being
Racism and Psychological and Emotional Injury
Psychotherapy With African American Men
Race in the Room
Preferred Style and Ethnicity of Counselors by African American Males
Black Males and Social Problems
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2023 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |