| In applying racial identity
to psychotherapy I have introduced the idea that race is an
integral aspect of personality and human development. In my
book, The Influence of
race and racial identity psychotherapy, I argue this point
and continue to develop the idea in my co-edited book Racial
Identity Theory: applications to individuals, groups, and organizations
Few writers have articulated how race operates in human
developmental processes and few have argued that psychological
resolutions associated with one’s racial group membership
are integrated into one’s personality structure.
Racial identity development is a psychological
process about how one sees oneself as a racial being and further,
how that self-perception influences one’s views of others
and the world. Racial identity development has associated
with it several psychological resolutions, while “race
identity” exists as an “either it is or it is
not phenomena. Racial identity theories at the time consisted
of a four “stage” process and are now considered
ego identity statuses that reflect development from an undifferentiated
and external status to a differentiated mature internal status.
Racial identity is therefore thought to be an integral part
of personality
In my book on applications of “Racial
Identity Theory” we specifically show how the race
and racial identity is applied to psychotherapy, models of
human development, clinical supervision, group and family
therapy, work with schools and teachers, to organizations
and institutions and family law.
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