Chapter 28: Engaging with Racialized Process in Clinical Supervision: Political or Personal

Racialized process manifests from the microinjection of racism and the ways that it becomes embedded in behavioral and psychological patterns. It embodies both conscious and unconscious responses to racism. This process is impacted by the intergenerational and socio-cultural contexts of racism, passed on via families, systematic institutional racism and individual internalized racism.

Racialized process that occurs in therapeutic work and clinical supervision shows up in the ways that therapist and supervisor acknowledge and address, or deny the impact of racism in the therapeutic space. It is an element of the dynamic process between therapist clients and supervisor. It is political and personal and therefore an important occurrence in the psychological, physical and emotional process of therapeutic triads.