Decolonized Clinical Supervision and Leadership
This book offers a roadmap to applying anti-oppressive theories, frameworks, and concepts to clinical social work supervision and leadership. It introduces anti-oppressive practice, Critical Race Theory, empowerment practice, transgender and critical gender studies, DEIPAR, critical Black studies, queer studies, and intersectionality, alongside other concepts. Offering practical guidance, reference, skill-building, and critical self-reflection tools, it is ideal for courses in social work supervision, leadership, diversity, and community practice as well as self-reference for practitioners. Structured to be easily referenced and adapted, this work also incorporates skill-building and reflection activities to promote interaction across different learning contexts.
- Provides and introduction to anti-oppressive and decolonial frameworks
- Designed to serve as both a core textbook for academic programs as well as a professional guidebook for practitioners
- Includes practice guidance vignettes, reflection questions, and additional learning activities, encouraging an interactive experience with the text
Product details
December 2025Paperback
9781009440530
300 pages
229 × 152 mm
Not yet published - available from December 2025
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Decolonized Clinical Supervision and Leadership: the necessity of now, an introduction Gary Bailey
- Part I. Content Knowledge and Application:
- 1. Decolonizing social work practice and clinical supervision – Beginning the Process Nathaniel L. Currie
- 2. Utilizing anti-oppressive lens in social work supervision Nathaniel L. Currie, Ashley Wolfe, Jack Burke, Gavin Meade, Gisela Martinez, Jad-Evangelo Nasser, Aydin Olson-Kennedy and Darrin Wright
- 3. DEIPAR (dee-per) Supervision: leadership and power-sharing Jaqueline Dyer
- 4. If-then antiracism heuristics: integration of critical race theory in clinical praxis Adriana Aldana and Michelle Zaragoza
- 5. The process of decolonizing supervision and leadership (it do take nerve) Ann Marie Garran, Nathaniel L. Currie, Jack Burke, Rebecca Lisenbee, Gavin Meade and Adrianna Taylor
- 6. Transforming leadership and supervision through the integration of anti-oppressive practices Christina Crow Cruz
- 7. Anti-oppressive and intersectional mental health practice in psycholegal and other interdisciplinary collaborative settings Lindsey Davis and Melanie Robinson Findlay
- Part II. Leadership and Systems Practice:
- 8. Dismantling systems that traumatize and oppress: a comprehensive approach Ann Marie Garran, Nathaniel L. Currie and Jad-Evangelo Nesser
- 9. Conducting community-based participatory research using a lens of anti-oppression: Insights into everyday application Natalie Crawford
- 10. Combined use of servant leadership principles and afrocentric perspective principles as framework to decolonize social institutions commitment to wellbeing and inclusion Darrin Wright
- 11. Liberation as praxis for anti-racist, anti-oppressive approaches to higher education and social work using a BLACKCRIT lens Frederick Engram
- 12. Reversing the curse: liberatory models for black leaders and clinical supervisors in the family separation system Sherri Simmons-Horton, Shawna Aarons-Cooke and Tanya Rollins
- 13. Supervision and leadership impact and overlap on communities Nathaniel L. Currie, Jenny Jones and Larry Scott-Walker
- Appendix. Anti-oppressive and decolonial resources unlocked Nathaniel L. Currie.