About the Author:
Lillian Comas-Díaz, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Transcultural Mental Health Institute and a clinical psychologist in private practice in Washington, DC. A past Director of the American Psychological Association's Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs, Dr. Comas-Díaz also has served as Director of the Hispanic Clinic at the Yale University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry. Currently, she is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. The Committee of Women in Psychology of the American Psychological Association awarded her the Emerging Leader Citation in 1989.
Beverly Greene, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at St. John's University and a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City. Dr. Greene has served as Director of Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychology Services at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY, and Supervising Psychologist-Clinical Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's Outpatient Community Mental Health Services in Newark. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, she has received the Association for Women in Psychology's first Women of Color Psychologies Publication Award in 1991 and the 1992 Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Ethnic Minority Issues from the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian and Gay Issues of the American Psychological Association.
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Forewords, Jean Baker Miller and Elaine Pinderhughes
I. WOMEN OF COLOR: A PORTRAIT OF HETEROGENEITY.
Overview: An Ethnocultural Mosaic, Comas-Diaz and Greene
1. African American Women, Greene
2. American Indian Women, LaFromboise, Berman, and Sohi
3. Asian and Asian American Women: Historical and Political Considerations in Psychotherapy, Bradshaw
4. Latinas, Vasquez
5. West Indian Women: The Jamaican Woman, Brice-Baker
6. Women of the Indian Subcontinent, Jayakar
II. THEORETICAL AND APPLIED FRAMEWORKS.
Overview: Gender and Ethnicity in the Healing Process, Comas-Díaz and Greene
7. Psychodynamic Approaches, Chin
8. Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches, Lewis
9. Family Therapy: A Closer Look at African American and Hispanic Women, Boyd-Franklin and García-Preto
10. Feminist Approaches, Espi'n
11. An Integrative Approach, Comas-Diaz
12. Psychopharmacology, Jacobsen
III. THE LABYRINTH OF DIVERSITY: SPECIAL POPULATIONS OF WOMEN OF COLOR
Overview: Connections and Disconnections, Comas-Díaz and Greene
13. Women of Color with Professional Status, Comas-Díaz and Greene
14. Lesbian Women of Color: Triple Jeopardy, Greene
15. Women of Color in Battering Relationships, Kanuha
16. Mixed Race Women, Root
17. Southeast Asian American Refugee Women, Tien
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