Overview

This comprehensive handbook provides therapists, social workers, educators, and mental health professionals with effective clinical interventions for working affirmatively with disabled clients and their families. Using an intersectional and strengths-based perspective, Manasi Shankar brings together interdisciplinary experts to outline the history of the disability community in the United States, their resultant experiences, and best practices in clinically affirmative care. Chapters are authored by disabled scholars, marriage and family therapists, disability activists, and researchers to amplify the voices of disabled experts. Topics include models of disability, ableism, disability in older populations, sexuality, disability and persons of color, moving toward the critical role of marriage and family therapists and the ways they can integrate affirmative approaches into their work. Filled with case vignettes, this handbook offers clinical applications of treatment strategies as well as pedagogical features for educators to supervise and instruct graduate students in working with disabled clients in therapy. This book aims to inspire therapists to incorporate disability dialogue into clinical practice, deconstructing the fragmentation of disability as outside the scope of marriage and family therapy (MFT). This text is an essential reading for graduate and licensed marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, counselors, and educators in MFT, counseling, and psychology. About the Artist Mariam Paré became a quadriplegic after surviving an act of gun violence at the age of 20. Determined to pursue her passion for art, she relearned how to paint by holding brushes with her mouth, evolving into a distinguished visual artist and mouth-painter. With over two decades of creative experience, Paré is known for her exceptional mouth-painting technique and compelling multimedia works that often explore the disability experience. She is also a proud member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide. www.mfpausa.com www.mariampare.com About the Cover Artwork Portraits of Spinal Cord Injury: Oppo (2023) Watercolor on paper 8"" x 8"" Painted by mouth Image Credit “By courtesy of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide.”

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“The pivotal role of critical psychotherapy in the emancipation of disabled people has been largely ignored. This foundational reading drives an essential conversation surrounding the potential of depth-oriented, subversive and liberatory psychotherapy. It uncovers the links between ableist ideology, material barriers to participation, and the subjective worlds of disabled people, through interrogating the unconscious underpinnings of inequality.” Brian Watermeyer, PhD “This extraordinary comprehensive handbook is the first to provide a relational and family-focused, systemic, contextual, and disability studies informed framework. This “go-to” text will be an extremely valuable resource to seasoned clinicians, scholars, and graduate students across mental healthcare disciplines. Manasi and colleagues provide a wealth of evidence-based therapeutic interventions as well as training and programmatic guidelines to help meet the challenges for disabled individuals, couples, and families.” John Rolland, PhD

Author Information

Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., is a clinician, educator, and scholar who specializes in disability-affirmative systemic therapy. She is the founder of Therapy at Bay – a private practice based in the San Francisco Bay area – and provides national and international training on systemic therapy with disabled clients and families.

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