Episode 1 | Safety First: Philosophy of Practice with Black Clients

In this episode, I am reflecting (and ranting…) on a comedic video by the channel “Vague Rant,” in which a white therapist is meeting with a Black client for the first time. I offer my input as to how the therapist perpetuates harm to her Black client and ways in which a more Afrocentric approach would have been beneficial as well as why. Towards the end, I finally came up with “my” philosophy of practice with Black clients: safety first.

Link to Sources Used to Guide My Demonstration/Discussion:

ABC Black Comedy: Therapist's First Aboriginal Client:
https://youtu.be/DfanaWwXKm8

Why saying ‘Aborigine’ isn’t OK:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2015/08/why-saying-aborigine-isnt-ok-8-facts-about-indigenous-people-in-australia/

Allostatic Load Burden and Racial Disparities in Mortality:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417124/

Coping with Racial Trauma:
(“Being seen and heard is essential to healing”).
https://www.psychology.uga.edu/coping-racial-trauma

And of course, lecture and discussions taken place in SW611

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