The Handbook of Disability-Affirmative Systemic Therapy

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.

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.

Section I: History, Law & the Sociopolitical Context of Disability 1. "he printed his name with his right hand *" Steven T. Licardi, LCSW 2. An Overview of the History of Disability in the United States Megan C. Carlos, Ph.D. 3. Disability and the Law: Challenges and Opportunities in the U.S. Legal System Solomon Furious Worlds, J.D. and Ellis Scout Cliff 4. Human Variation: Disability Models Explained Angélica Guevara, Ph.D. 5. Ableism within Academia: Impact on the Lives of Disabled Persons Rhoda Olkin, Ph.D. Section II: Contextualizing Disability Through an Intersectional Lens 6. "Total Blindness" Catlin Hernandez 7. The Intersection of Older Adulthood, Mental Health, and Disability Pamela B. Teaster, Ph.D., and Onyinye F Mbanefo, M.S. 8. The Intersection of Race and Disability: Redefining Inclusive Therapeutic Practice Angélica Guevara, Ph.D. 9. Intersecting Identities: Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Disabled People Alan Santinele Martino, Ph.D., Melissa Miller, Jordan Parks, and Eleni Moumos Section III: Foundations of Disability-Affirmative Therapy 10. "Becoming Dyslexic" Catherine Kapphahn 11. Thinking Psychoanalytically about Therapy with Disabled People: The Need to Begin with Ourselves Brian Watermeyer, Ph.D. 12. The Counteractive Value of Disability Affirmative Therapy: How Well-meaning Assumptions ("I don't see disability") Impacts Disabled Clients Katy Evans and Mel Halacre Kami L. Gallus Ph.D., LMFT, Jennifer L. Jones, Ph.D., Garrett M. Jones, and Natalie M. Richardson, Ph.D., LMFT 14. Couples Therapy with Disabled Partners: Integrating Disability into Relational Practice Rebecca Kammes, Ph.D., LMFT, Madeline Barger, LMFT, and Debra L. Miller, Ph.D., LCSW 15. Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part I): Historical Foundations and Philosophical Assumptions Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC 16. Disability-Affirmative Family Therapy (Part II): Clinical Applications Manasi Shankar, Ph.D., LPCC, NCC 17. Accessible Therapy Spaces: Looking Beyond Infrastructure Toni Saia, Ph.D., CRC and Gabrielle Ficchi Ph.D., LPC, LPCS, CRC Section IV: Clinical Supervision and Program Development 18. "I am." Pramod Shankar 19. Addressing The Missing Piece: Developing Inclusive Programmatic Structures, Modules, and Coursework Brittany A. Williams, Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, Derek, X. Seward, Ph.D., LMHC, NCC, and Kahyen Shin 20. Multi-disciplinary Collaboration, Representation, and Ethical Research of Disability Experiences Lydia Qualls, Ph.D., Lyndon Frommer, and Ashley Shew, Ph.D. 21. Clinical Supervision of Disability-Specific Cases Shakeela Gray, LGPC, NCC, Brittany A. Williams Ph.D., LCPC, NCC, and Briana Gaines, Ph.D., LPC, CCTP 22. Disability Justice and the Person-of-the-Therapist Framework James Tillett, Ph.D., Jody Russon, Ph.D., and Shalini Srinivasan, M.A.