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Decolonized Clinical Supervision and Leadership

Decolonized Clinical Supervision and Leadership

Decolonized Clinical Supervision and Leadership

A Social Work Perspective
Editor:
Nathaniel L. Currie, Clark Atlanta University, Georgia
Gary Bailey, Nathaniel L. Currie, Ashley Wolfe, Jack Burke, Gavin Meade, Gisela Martinez, Jad-Evangelo Nasser, Aydin Olson-Kennedy, Darrin Wright;, Jaqueline Dyer, Adriana Aldana, Michelle Zaragoza, Ann Marie Garran, Rebecca Lisenbee, Adrianna Taylor, Christina Crow Cruz, Lindsey Davis, Melanie Robinson Findlay, Natalie Crawford, Justin C. Smith, Darrin Wright, Frederick Engram, Sherri Simmons-Horton, Shawna Aarons-Cooke, Tanya Rollins, Jenny Jones, Larry Scott-Walker, Sarah Bricke
Published:
December 2025
Availability:
Not yet published - available from December 2025
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9781009440530

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    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 2025
    Paperback
    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.
      Contributors
    • Gary Bailey, Nathaniel L. Currie, Ashley Wolfe, Jack Burke, Gavin Meade, Gisela Martinez, Jad-Evangelo Nasser, Aydin Olson-Kennedy, Darrin Wright;, Jaqueline Dyer, Adriana Aldana, Michelle Zaragoza, Ann Marie Garran, Rebecca Lisenbee, Adrianna Taylor, Christina Crow Cruz, Lindsey Davis, Melanie Robinson Findlay, Natalie Crawford, Justin C. Smith, Darrin Wright, Frederick Engram, Sherri Simmons-Horton, Shawna Aarons-Cooke, Tanya Rollins, Jenny Jones, Larry Scott-Walker, Sarah Bricke

    • Editor
    • Nathaniel L. Currie , Clark Atlanta University, Georgia

      Nathaniel L. Currie is a scholar-practitioner specializing in the trauma experiences of Black and Brown identified men, anti-oppressive social work practices, and gender and orientation diversity. His clinical community-based participatory research explores the psychosocial intersection of trauma and HIV and other health disparities experienced by Black and Brown men.