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Book Launch: "The Cost of Healing in Silence" with Ashley McGirt-Adair.
Wed, Apr 22
|Cafe con Libros
The Cost of Healing in Silence examines how racial trauma and systemic inequities shape mental health outcomes. Drawing on clinical expertise and lived experience, Ashley McGirt calls for culturally responsive, community-centered approaches to care that move beyond silence toward collective healing.
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Cafe con Libros, 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216, USA
About the Event
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care offers a critical, interdisciplinary examination of how systemic racism, historical exclusion, and cultural mistrust shape the mental health experiences of Black individuals and families in urban communities. Blending clinical insight, narrative inquiry, and policy analysis, Ashley McGirt centers the lived realities of Black families who have been underserved and often harmed by traditional mental health systems.
Drawing from trauma-informed practice, public health frameworks, and culturally responsive care models, the book interrogates why Black communities are frequently misdiagnosed, under-treated, and pathologized, while simultaneously expected to demonstrate endurance without adequate support. McGirt introduces a strengths-based lens that moves beyond deficit narratives, emphasizing fortitude, perseverance, and collective survival while naming the structural conditions that make “healing in silence” a necessary yet costly adaptation.
Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate-level courses, The Cost of Healing…