{"product_id":"the-cost-of-healing-in-silence-navigating-racial-trauma-and-the-call-for-culturally-responsive-care-paperback-softback-9781394345410","title":"The Cost of Healing in Silence; Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care (Paperback \/ softback) 9781394345410","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNavigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, Ashley McGirt-Adair delivers a courageous and transformative call to break cycles of pain and isolation. With truth, tenderness, and conviction, she shows that our healing, both individual and collective, begins when we dare to speak, to feel, and to reclaim our wholeness.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Uché Blackstock,\u003c\/b\u003e MD, Founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity; New York Times best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eLegacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful guide for anyone navigating racial trauma or working to build systems worthy of our communities. Drawing from deep clinical expertise and lived truth, Ashley McGirt-Adair offers a rare blend of wisdom, vulnerability, and practical tools that make this book as healing as it is essential.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Marcus Harrison Green\u003c\/b\u003e, journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eReadying to Rise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Ashley McGirt-Adair offers a powerful and much-needed contribution to our understanding of racial trauma. As a leading expert in this work, she brings clarity to the historical and generational battles our community faces, blending scholarship and lived experience in a way psychology has often missed. Her storytelling is rich and deeply human, giving readers both language and healing. This is a timeless work that will empower generations.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dr. Patrice N. Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e, Licensed Psychologist and LMFT; Founder and CEO of The Weight Room\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“In this powerful and deeply necessary book, Ashley McGirt-Adair writes with the clarity of a scholar, the heart of a healer, and the courage of someone willing to speak the truths most would rather bury or simply erase.  She reminds us that healing is not just about survival. It is about joy, belonging, and reclaiming our right to feel.  \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is both testimony and scholarship; a gift to those who live with the daily realities of weathering and to anyone committed to building systems where Black wellness is possible.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e —Arline T. Geronimus\u003c\/b\u003e, ScD, author of \u003ci\u003eWeathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence \u003c\/i\u003eis a balm and a call to action for Black communities who have been told to ‘be strong’ and quiet, and for every practitioner who has not been taught how to address the root of racial trauma. Ashley McGirt-Adair beautifully illuminates what so many of us know in our bones—that when care ignores culture, silence becomes survival—and this book gives the language and a grounded, hopeful path from healing in silence to healing out loud.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Mullan, PsyD,\u003c\/b\u003e  psychologist, Founder of Decolonizing Therapy®, Ancestral Lineage Worker, and author of the \u003ci\u003eBest Seller Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“For too long the legacy of American Chattel Slavery as it relates to Black people, has haunted the souls of Black people of the diaspora both nationally and internationally for far too long! \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence \u003c\/i\u003eprovides the reader an opportunity to start their personal journey of healing so that the chains and legacy of slavery can be eradicated one link at a time.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Delbert Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e, historian, owner, and curator of the national award winning \"Unspoken Truths\" American history traveling Museum\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Part memoir and part cri de coeur, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling indictment of our system-less system of mental health care. In the tradition of Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, Ashley McGirt-Adair reveals how the wounds the Clarks documented in children during the 1940s and 50s remain with us to this day - and why culturally responsive care is essential to healing.”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tim Spofford,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eWhat The Children Told Us\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAshley McGirt-Adair (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781394345410, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 March 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 18.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn up-to-date and expert discussion of how to create a more culturally responsive mental health care system\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care,\u003c\/i\u003e veteran psychotherapist and trauma specialist Ashley McGirt-Adair delivers an effective roadmap for culturally responsive mental health care that acknowledges, understands, and begins to heal the ways racial bias and stereotypes infiltrate counseling. Blending contemporary research, practical tools, and searing personal stories, McGirt-Adair offers both a personal narrative and a comprehensive guide to more equitable mental health care. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e offers techniques for culturally responsive care that demonstrates how mental health care can be improved by offering therapy that is reflective of and sensitive to a range of identities.  McGirt-Adair helps readers uncover the impacts of racial trauma and navigate the scars it leaves behind, offering culturally attuned techniques for healing and restoration that honor identity and community. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou'll also find: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eActionable guidance for recognizing and addressing racial bias in therapeutic settings\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eInspiring amplifications of marginalized voices, including those whose pain has often been overlooked and dismissed\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eStrategies for improving access to Black therapists and implementing changes that prioritize cultural responsive care\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerfect for people of color who have faced discrimination, bias, or unequal treatment in healthcare settings and are seeking guidance on how to heal from these experiences, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Healing in Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is also a must-read for healthcare professionals, educators and allies committed to transforming healthcare into a more equitable system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpigraph xi\u003cbr\u003eOpening Note: A Message to the Reader xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1 Spanish Harlem 1\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 Liquor Stores on Every Corner 21\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 Cracks in the Foundation 41\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 The Price of Silence: A Grandmother's Final Struggle 69\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 Safe Enough to Speak: Stories Held Gently—Janelle’s Story 91\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 The Weight of Racial Trauma 101\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 In the Absence of Reflection 111\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Misnamed Shadows: When the Blues Turn Silent 137\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 A System Not Built for Us 155\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 The Power of Being Responsive 167\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11 Tending to the Wound 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResources and Next Steps 183\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 187\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author 189\u003cbr\u003eIndex 191\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52472077844760,"sku":"9781394345410","price":12.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781394345410.jpg?v=1785716207","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cost-of-healing-in-silence-navigating-racial-trauma-and-the-call-for-culturally-responsive-care-paperback-softback-9781394345410","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}