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

Social workers and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) helpers can use hair combing interaction (HCI) as a therapeutic tool to support families experiencing stress, separation, and loss. HCI involves lively verbal interaction, sensitive touch, and responsiveness to infant cues. This book explores how HCI can be used as an emotionally powerful, trauma-informed, culturally valid therapeutic tool for mental health helpers. It includes case studies and reflective supervision questions to understand sociocultural factors that may shape behaviors during HCI. The book is a valuable resource for professionals and parents who work with military families or multiracial families with bi-racial children.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 267 pages
\n Publication date: 07 December 2021
\n Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Social workers and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) helpers require practical, relationship-based clinical tools to support families experiencing stress, separation, and loss. Research reveals key parenting behaviors occur during hair combing interaction (HCI) – lively verbal interaction, sensitive touch, and responsiveness to infant cues. This book explores how the simple routine of combing hair serves as an emotionally powerful, trauma-informed, culturally valid therapeutic tool for use by mental health helpers.

HCI offers a low-cost opportunity for IECMH helpers to engage families and sustain attachment relationships. In this book, case studies illustrate the use of HCI with diverse families of color. Each chapter includes questions for reflective supervision to understand sociocultural factors that may shape behaviors during HCI. Topics included in the text:

The Observing Professional and the Parents Ethnobiography
Introduction to Reflective Supervision: Through the Lens of Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
A Case Study in Cross-Racial Practice and Supervision: Reflections in Black and White
Tools to Disrupt Legacies of Colorism: Perceptions, Emotions, and Stories of Childhood Racial Features
Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair

© is a unique resource for counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, home visiting nurses, early childhood educators, and family therapists who work with military families or multiracial families with bi-racial children.

“This book provides practical insights useful for professionals and parents. The authors share compelling experiences using strength-based and rich cultural approaches guided by reflective practice. It deserves to be widely read and utilized in clinical and educational settings to promote positive outcomes for families experiencing stress, separation, and loss.”

\n Weight: 623g\n
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9783030837259\n
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021\n