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In Ethnocultural Psychotherapy, Dr. Lillian Comas-Diaz demonstrates her approach to integrating the implications and effects of human diversity into therapeutic practice. This approach recognizes the concept of self as an internal ethnocultural representation and focuses on empowerment and awareness of context. In this session, Dr. Comas-Diaz works with a young Latina woman to explore the sources of her anger management issues and reach toward a healing transformation. This video features a client portrayed by an actor on the basis of actual case material. Read about precipitating events and previous sessions
Ethnocultural psychotherapy was developed by Dr. Comas-Diaz and Dr. Frederick M. Jacobsen to integrate human diversity into clinical practice. This eclectic approach acknowledges the concept of self as an internal ethnocultural representation. The recognition, recovery, and use of the client's strengths constitute central tenets in this framework.
Lillian Comas-Diaz received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Massachusetts. The executive director of the Transcultural Mental Health Institute, she also maintains a private practice in Washington, DC. Dr. Comas-Diaz is the former director of the American Psychological Association's Office of Ethnic Minority Affairs and the former director of the Hispanic Clinic at Yale University School of Medicine. A fellow of the American Psychological Association, she is the recipient of the Committee on Women in Psychology's Award for Emerging Leader for Women in Psychology. Dr. Comas-Diaz has published extensively on the topics of ethnocultural mental health, gender and ethnic factors in psychotherapy, treatment of torture victims, international psychology, and Latino mental health. Her most recent edited book is Women of Color: Integrating Ethnic and Gender Identities Into Psychotherapy. She is the editor-in-chief of a new journal on diversity and clinical practice.
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