Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair

Front matter

ENDORSEMENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE BOOK

EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

SANKOFA                                                                                                    

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PART I: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair 

1.  Childhood Experiences of Racial Acceptance and Rejection       

2.  A Social Worker's Story:  How Can I Help This Young Mother and Her Little Children?                                                                                       

3.  The Interactive Stages of Hair Combing: Routines and Rituals               

4.  The Observing Professional and the Parent's Ethnobiography                                                   

5. Cultural Routines and Reflections: Building Parent-Child Connections - Hair Combing Interaction as a Cultural Intervention        

PART II: Reflective Supervision and Practice: Experiences Shared by Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioners

7.  Summoning Angels in the Nursery with Hair Combing Interactions                                   

8.  The Tilted Room of Colorism                                                                                                                                                

9.  Infant Mental Health Practice and Reflective Supervision: Who We Are Matters

10. A Case Study in Cross-Racial Practice and Supervision: Reflections in Black and White                                      

PART III: Reflections on Community-Based Interventions

12. Reflections on the Talk, Touch & Listen Facilitator Learning Community: Braiding the Personal, the Professional, and Liberation                    

13. PsychoHairapy Through Beauticians and Barbershops: The Healing Relational Triad of Black Hair Care Professionals, Mothers, and Daughters                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

14. Reflections on Experiences in a Community-Based Parent Support Group: Parent Whisperers                                                                                                                                                                      

15. Culture, Creativity, and Helping:  Using the Afrocentric Perspective in Community Healing           

PART IV: Tools for Observation, Assessment, and Intervention

16.  Tools to Disrupt Legacies of Colorism: Perceptions, Emotions, and Stories of Childhood Racial Features

17. Guidelines to Identify Child-Endangering Hair Styling Practices: Medical, Legal, and Psychosocial Perspectives

18. Conclusions                                                                                 

Back matter

Appendix A:   Glossary of Hair Combing Interaction Terms           

Appendix B:    Childhood Experiences of Racial Acceptance and Rejection (CERAR) Interview Questions & FAMILY COLORGRAM

Appendix C:    Tender-Headed Rating Scale^© (TRS)

Appendix D:   The 'Neck-Up' Exercise^©      

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