Overview
- Examines affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience
- Explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of resilience
- Describes the role of therapy in leveraging resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families
Part of the book series: Emerging Issues in Family and Individual Resilience (EIIFR)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- American Indian/Alaska Native, resilience, strength
- Black mental health, strengths, resilience
- College students, LGBTQ+, resilience, community
- Gender, family, strength, resilience
- LGBTQ+, resilience, identity
- Racial disparity, identity, resilience
- Racial trauma, Black families, resilience
- Transgender, queer, resilience, strengths
- African American homeschooling, inequity, resilience
- Development, children, resilience
- Families, gender, acceptance, resilience
- Family resilience, advocacy, identity
- Intergenerational Transmission of Historical Trauma (ITHxT)
- Positive development, Black girls
- Strengths based, resilience, LGBTQ+
- Temperament, children, resilience
- Tribal identities, political status, families
- Black girls, resilience, social identity
- Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), cultural resilience
- Latinx, LGBTQ, families, culture
About this book
This book examines strengths-based approaches to understanding and celebrating diverse populations. It centers on understanding the ways in which minoritized group identities and membership in such communities can serve as sources of strength. The volume explores the varied dimensions of minoritized identities and challenges traditional concepts of what it means to be resilient. It presents research-based and innovative strategies to understand more thoroughly the role of resilience and strengths in diverse populations and families. The book addresses the need to consider affirmative, liberation, and strengths-based models of resilience.
Key areas of coverage include:
- Families of transgender and gender diverse people.
- The role of chosen family in LGBTQ communities.
- Latinx LGBTQ families.
- The Indian Child Welfare Act.
- Celebration of Black girl voices.
- Homeschooling as a resilience factor for Black families.
- Black identity and resilience related to mental health.
- Black resilience in families.
Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental psychology, family studies, clinical child and school psychology, cultural psychology, social work, and public health as well as education policy and politics, behavioral health, psychiatry, and all related disciplines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Julie M. Koch, PhD, LHSP (she/they) is a Professor of Counseling Psychology in the Department of Psychological & Quantitative Foundations at the University of Iowa. Before joining the University of Iowa, she was Professor and Head of the School of Community Health Sciences, Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Koch was a Fulbright Specialist to the Mongolia LGBT Centre in 2015, is a past American Psychological Association representative to the International Psychology Network on LGBT Issues, and has served on the American Psychological Association Committee for Global Psychology and Committee on Women in Psychology. Her interests include multicultural competence, training, and development of faculty and counseling psychologists; human rights and social justice; LGBTQ mental health and affirmative practice, especially in rural and international settings; prevention; and microaffirmation.
Erica E. Townsend-Bell, PhD (she/her/ella) is Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for African Studies at Oklahoma State University. Dr. Townsend-Bell currently serves as a board member of the American Political Science Association’s flagship journal, The American Political Science Review. She previously served as a member of the APSA Committee on the Status of Women, and as program section chair for the Western Political Science Association and Midwest Political Science Association annual conferences. Her areas of expertise include the politics of intersectionality, comparative race and gender politics, and social movements, especially across the Americas.
Randolph D. Hubach, PhD, MPH (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Public Health and the Director of the Sexual Health Research Lab at Purdue University. Early in his career, Dr. Hubach’s research and practice experiences included serving as PI on a federally fundedcommunity-based sexual health intervention project, developing managed care programs for local public health and mental health jurisdictions, and serving in leadership positions in multiple community health coalitions and planning processes. As a behavioral scientist and public health researcher, he has gained a practical understanding of the challenges associated with the delivery of public health programs that are scientifically sound and responsive to the needs of diverse communities. Dr. Hubach’s research program focuses on three key areas: 1) HIV prevention and care; 2) LGBT health disparities; and 3) rural health and the intersection of these three areas.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity as Resilience in Minoritized Communities
Book Subtitle: Strengths-Based Approaches to Research and Practice
Editors: Julie M. Koch, Erica E. Townsend-Bell, Randolph D. Hubach
Series Title: Emerging Issues in Family and Individual Resilience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38977-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38976-4Published: 31 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38979-5Due: 01 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38977-1Published: 30 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2366-6072
Series E-ISSN: 2366-6080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 129
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Cross Cultural Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Public Health