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  • Book
    Jefferson M. Fish.
    Summary: [Publisher-supplied data] Is our society color-blind? Trans-racial? Post-racial? And what if anything should this mean to professionals in clinical practice with diverse clients? The ambitious volume The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy probes these questions, compelling readers to look differently at their clients (and themselves), and offering a practical framework for more effective therapy. By tracing the racial folk taxonomies of eight cultures in the Americas and the Caribbean, the author elegantly defines race as a fluid construct, dependent on local social, political, and historical context for meaning but meaningless in the face of science. This innovative perspective informs the rest of the book, which addresses commonly held assumptions about problem behavior and the desire to change, and presents a social-science-based therapy model, applicable to a wide range of current approaches, that emphasizes both cultural patterns and client uniqueness. Among the highlights of the coverage: Common elements in therapy and healing across cultures.The psychological appeal of racial concepts despite scientific evidence to the contrary.Lessons psychology can learn from anthropology.Three types of therapeutic relationships, with strategies for working effectively in each.The phenomenon of discontinuous change in brief therapy.Solution-focused therapy from a cross-cultural perspective. Thought-provoking reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical social workers, and other mental health professionals as well as graduate students in these fields, The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy affirms the individuality and the interconnectedness of every client.
    Digital Access Springer 2011
  • Article
    Russo M, Lutton JD.
    J Cell Physiol. 1977 Aug;92(2):303-7.
    Mice of the C3H/HeJ strain exhibit low inflammatory and immunological responses to certain bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) preparations. Lymphocytes from C3H/HeJ mice also show defective LPS-induced mitogenesis. We tested the colony stimulating activity (CSA) response of C3H/HeJ mice. As controls we used mice of the congenic C3HeB/FeJ strain, which are good responders to LPS. Serum was obtained three hours after intravenous administration of LPS. Serum CSA was determined in agar cultures of bone marrow cells from AKR mice. The serum CSA response of C3H/HeJ to 10 microgram LPS was approximately 8-fold lower than that of control C3HeB/FeJ mice. In contrast, both strains showed similar serum CSA-induced by Poly I:poly C. Peritoneal macrophage cultures were also incubated with 0.1-10.0 microgram LPS and culture media assayed for CSA. The response of C3H/HeJ macrophages was about 6-fold lower than that of macrophages obtained from the control mice. The results show that the lower responsiveness of C3H/HeJ mice to LPS also extends to the production of CSA. The in vitro findings indicate that the postulated defect in the LPS receptor of B lymphocytes may also be present on macrophages.
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