Response to “Becoming Visible: The Case of Collette”

AbstractThe clinician ’s experiences of race outside of the treatment room contribute to the formation of a racialized self, which influences clinical work with all clients notwithstanding race. Multiracial individuals at times must balance their external physical presentation—and the corresponding race-related categ ories that others place on them—with their own internally constructed racial identifications. The mechanisms of identification and disidentification can provide safety for the multiracial individual. How can clinicians effectively acknowledge their own identifications and disidentifications as len ses for seeing the multiracial person’s racialized self and selves so as to more effectively work with the multiracial?

Source: Clinical Social Work Journal - September 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research