LibGuides: COUN-6116: Lesson 6 Resources

Lesson 6 Required Resources

Articles discuss the concepts of oppression, social location and intersectionality and how they impact the mental health of consumers and treatment practices. Reading specific to California client populations inform students will assist clinicians to provide culturally informed counseling.

Therapeutic Utility of Discussing Therapist/Client Intersectionality in Treatment: When and How?
Pettyjohn, M.E., Tseng, C. & Blow, A.J. (2019). Therapeutic utility of discussing therapist/client intersectionality in treatment: When and how?, Family Process, x, 1-15
When Oppression is the Pathogen: The Participatory Development of Socially Just Mental Health Practice
Smith, L., Chambers D. & Bratini, L. (2009). When oppression is the pathogen: The participatory development of socially just mental health practice. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 79(2), 159-168.
California NAMI Mental Illness Statistics
National Alliance on Mental Illness. (2020). Facts & statistics.