Voices of Color

Mudita Rastogi, Ph.D., LMFT, is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the American School of Professional Psychology, Argosy University in Schaumburg, Illinois. She obtained her Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy from Texas Tech University. Additionally she has earned undergraduate and master's degrees in Psychology from University of Delhi and University of Bombay, India. Dr. Rastogi has published in the areas of family and couple therapy, cross-cultural and gender issues and South Asian families, and is editor of the book Voices of Color: First-Person Accounts of Ethnic Minoriity Therapists (2005, Sage). She is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Dr. Rastogi has over fifteen years of clinical experience in both India and the United States with a highly diverse client population, and is in private practice in Arlington Heights, Illinois as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Her clinical interests include couples, families, adolescents, cultural and gender issues, domestic violence and trauma. She frequently presents workshops nationally and internationally and also conducts training and consultation in the area of leadership. Additionally, Dr. Rastogi maintains an interest in volunteering and partnering with grassroots, not-for-profit organizations. She is an AAMFT Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor, and a founding member of the Indian Association for Family Therapy. Elizabeth Wieling, Ph.D. Research interests involve the development of culturally sensitive and effective clinical interventions, cross-cultural therapy and supervision, inter-cultural couple relationships, and issues related to the status of women, including their mental health, family relationships, education, economic well-being, and political influence in the United States and abroad. I am currently investigating the cultural adaptation processes involved in modifying an evidence based parenting treatment program to better fit the cultural characteristics of a sample of at-risk Latina single mothers and children. Specifically, I am analyzing the Parenting Through Change parenting intervention developed at the Oregon Social Learning Center for its cultural relevance using an Ecological Cultural Model. I am examining the dimensions and specific cultural processes to be modified and integrated into the culturally adapted intervention, which will be manualized for later implementation. Experimental groups comprised of the standard and culturally adapted parenting interventions will be implemented to further understand issues related to study effectiveness and efficacy with this population. This study is being conducted as part of a 5-year Career Development Award funded by the National Institute on Mental Health.

Chapter 1: Introduction - Mudita Rastogi and Elizabeth Wieling Section I: Identity and Professional Development of Therapists of Color Chapter 2: Emerging Identity: An Asian Indian Female Psychologist's Perspective - Monika Sharma Chapter 3: Our Stories: Convergence of the Language, Professional, and Personal Identities of Three Latino Therapists - Luis Antonio Rivas, Edward A. Delgado-Romero, and Kelly Ramon Ozambela Chapter 4: When Turtle Met Rabbit: Native Family Systems - Janet M. Derrick Section II: Ethnicity and Race in the Therapy Room and in the Classroom Chapter 5: African American Women in Client, Therapist, and Supervisory Relationships: The Parallel Processes of Race, Culture, and Family - Shalonda Kelly and Nancy Boyd-Franklin Chapter 6: Taking Off the Mask: Breaking the Silence--The Art of Naming Racism in the Therapy Room - Larry Lee Chapter 7: When Racism Is Reversed: Therapists of Color Speak About Their Experiences With Racism From Clients, Supervisees, and Supervisors - Saba Rasheed Ali, Jonathan R. Flojo, Krista M. Chronister, Diane Hayashino, Quincy R. Smiling, Danielle Torres, and Ellen Hawley McWhirter Chapter 8: Toward a Liberation Pedagogy: Creating a Safe Environment for Diversity Conversations in the Classroom - Debra A. Nixon Chapter 9: Post 9/11: Combating Racism in the Sanctity of Healing--A Clinical Vignette Utilizing a Cultural Process Dialogue - Azmaira H. Maker Chapter 10: Stories From Urban and Rural Landscapes: The Development of a Cultural Identity - Laurie L. Charles Chapter 11: The Process of Integrating Language, Context, and Meaning: The Voices of Bilingual and Bicultural Therapists - Carmen Aguirre, J. Maria Bermudez, J. Ruben Parra Cardona, Jorge Antonio Zamora, and Nenetzin Angelica Reyes Chapter 12: International Academic Sojourners in the United States of America: Color in the Ivory Tower - Mudita Rastogi and Carole Woolford-Hunt Section III: Theory- and Research-Based Interventions and Approaches Chapter 13: South Asians in the United States: Developing a Systemic and Empirically Based Mental Health Assessment Model - Azmaira H. Maker, Mona Mittal, and Mudita Rastogi Chapter 14: Black Women Victims and Perpetrators of Family Domestic Violence: A Therapeutic Model Incorporating Racism and Black History - Denise D. McAdory Chapter 15: From Polarization to Pluralization: The Japanese Sense of Self and Bowen Theory - Narumi Taniguchi Chapter 16: Kum Ba Yah: The Relevance of Family Systems Theory for Clinicians and Clients of African Descent - Martha Adams Sullivan Chapter 17: Family Therapy From a Hindu Indian Worldview - Nithyakala Karuppaswamy and Rajeswari Natrajan Chapter 18: Developing Culturally Appropriate, Evidence Based Treatments for Interventions With Ethnic Minority Populations - Melanie Domenech Rodriguez and Elizabeth Wieling Chapter 19: Acculturation Versus Cultural Identity: The Need for New Cultural Lenses in the Mental Health Professions - J. Ruben Parra Cardona, Richard S. Wampler, and Dean M. Busby Index