Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships

PART I: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair- Chapter1. Childhood Experiences of Racial Acceptance and Rejection.- Chapter2.  A Social Worker's Story:  How Can I Help This Young Mother and Her Little Children?.- Chapter3. The Interactive Stages of Hair Combing: Routines and Rituals.- Chapter4.  The Observing Professional and the Parent's Ethnobiography.- Chapter5. Cultural Routines and Reflections: Building Parent-Child Connections - Hair Combing Interaction as a Cultural Intervention.- PART II: Reflective Supervision and Practice: Experiences Shared by Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioners.-  Chapter6. Introduction to Reflective Supervision: Through the Lens of Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.- Chapter7.  Summoning Angels in the Nursery with Hair Combing Interactions.- Chapter8.  The Tilted Room of Colorism.-  Chapter9.  Infant Mental Health Practice and ReflectiveSupervision: Who We Are Matters.- Chapter 10. 10. A Case Study in Cross-Racial Practice and Supervision: Reflections in Black and White.- PART III: Reflections on Community-Based Interventions.- Chapter 11.  If Her Hair Isn't Right, then I'm Not a Good Mother:  Reflections on the San Diego Caregiver-Child Connections  Community Counseling Project.- Chapter 12. Reflections on the Talk, Touch & Listen Facilitator Learning Community: Braiding the Personal, the Professional, and Liberation.- Chapter 13. PsychoHairapy Through Beauticians and Barbershops: The Healing Relational Triad of Black Hair Care Professionals, Mothers, and Daughters.- Chapter 14. Reflections on Experiences in a Community-Based Parent Support Group: Parent Whisperers.- Chapter 15. Culture, Creativity, and Helping:  Using the Afrocentric Perspective in Community Healing.- PART IV: Tools for Observation, Assessment, and

Marva L. Lewis earned a PhD in Sociocultural Psychology and Associate Professor at Tulane University School of Social Work in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a former child protection worker, infant mental health psychotherapist, and children's counselor at a domestic violence shelter. While completing her graduate degree in Boulder, Colorado she worked with Janet Dean and Rae Sullivan as a psychotherapist on a nurse/therapist outreach team for the Community Infant Project and helped develop the Circulo Infant Outreach program for Latina mothers. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Louisiana State University Department of Psychiatry with Dr. Charles Zeanah and Dr. Joy Osofsky, where she was part of the original Infant Team.  She conducts research on cultural rituals and routines of hair-combing interaction and parent-infant attachment. Her research focuses on the development of strengths-based, culturally valid, community-based interventions to supportAfrican American families to address intergenerational messages of acceptance or rejection of children based on colorism. Dr. Lewis serves on the ad hoc Board of Director's group developing the Statement on Disrupting Systemic Racism in Academic Publishing from the Infant Mental Health Journal. Since 2020 she served as chair of the work group, Engage Diversity and Difference in Practice for the steering committee of the Erikson Institute and Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), Curricular Guide for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Neuroscience. In 2011 she was commissioned by the National Zero to Three Safe Baby Court Teams to provide consultation, coaching, and training on issues of bias, historical trauma of slavery, and workforce contributions to racial disparities in the child welfare system. She worked with the national Center for Social Science Policy (CSSP) to develop the Race Equity Assessment Tool for Safe Babies Court Teams. In 2021 she chaired the