Social workers and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) helpers need practical, relationship-based clinical tools to support families experiencing stress, separation, and loss. Research reveals key parenting behaviors occur during hair combing interaction (HCI) - lively verbal interaction, sensitive touch, and responsiveness to infant cues. This book explores how the simple routine of combing hair serves as an emotionally powerful, trauma-informed, culturally valid therapeutic tool for use by mental health helpers.

• The Observing Professional and the Parent''s Ethnobiography   
• Introduction to Reflective Supervision: Through the Lens of Culture, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion    
• A Case Study in Cross-Racial Practice and Supervision: Reflections in Black and White 
• Tools to Disrupt Legacies of Colorism: Perceptions, Emotions, and Stories of Childhood Racial Features

Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships: Talk, Touch & Listen While Combing Hair© is a unique resource for counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, home visiting nurses, early childhood educators, and family therapists who work with military families or multiracial families with bi-racial children.

"This book provides practical insights useful for professionals and parents. The authors share compelling experiences using strength-based and rich cultural approaches guided by reflective practice. It deserves to be widely read and become a classic resource."

                             Robert N. Emde, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine