A Trusted Connection: Black Parents and the Importance of Cultural Competence in Therapy - Child Mind Institute

A Trusted Connection: Black Parents and the Importance of Cultural Competence in Therapy - Child Mind Institute

When Grace W.’s son Denzel began acting out in class, the New York City-based copy editor was immediately concerned. Denzel, then aged eight, had always been a stellar student. In the gifted program at school, he had never gotten into trouble. “He was also starting to have a lot of nightmares, and his teacher was calling every week to say that he was disrupting class,” Grace says. “This was not the Denzel I knew. We needed help.” When Grace cont…