Books in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling and Psychotherapy series

Authors Don C. Locke and Deryl F. Bailey encourage readers to explore their own cultural background and identity, and in the process, begin to better understand others.

This book will provide practitioners, researchers and counsellor trainers with the knowledge they need to influence more competent therapeutic practice with a diverse clientele. It is a companion volume to Volume 7 in the Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series.

How can quality mental health care be provided for multicultural populations? This volume explores this question by focusing on mental health services in the United States for a variety of populations, including African Americans, Native Americans and Chinese Americans.

Suitable for counsellors and other mental health professional who work with Latinos and their families, this book provides background information about the Latino population and the family unit, which is so central to Latino culture, including the diversity of various Spanish-speaking groups, socio-political issues, and changing family forms.

A resource book intended to help mental health practitioners and trainees develop ethical decision-making skills which reflect cultural responsiveness. It covers ethical dilemmas arising in face-to-face counselling interactions; the supervisory relationship; and, the teaching of counselling.

One in ten persons living in the United States was born in another country, and in many areas this percentage is much higher. This title provides information about views of disability in other cultures and ways in which rehabilitation professionals may improve services for persons from other cultures.

Challenges practitioners with the proposal that integrating spiritual values in multicultural counselling and exploring spirituality from multicultural perspectives are synergistic and mutually reciprocal processes.

Examines the dynamics and effects of racism in counseling with an emphasis on the insidiousness of unintentional racism. The Second Edition provides a new section on the policies and practices of agencies and other institutions in the mental health system unintentionally resulting in service disparities.

James M Croteau, Julianne S Lark and Teresa S Lance Our Stories Will Be Told: Deconstructing the Heterosexist Discourse in the Counseling Professions / Part One: Narrative Voices / Introduction to Part One / Part One: Narratives Voices / Eve M Adams Moving from Random Acts of Inclusion toward LGB-Affirmative Institutions / Alan D Berkowitz.

Diagnosis in a Multicultural Context

Counseling Persons of African Descent provides an in-depth analysis of the counselling literature pertaining to African American clients.

Examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counselling and psychotherapy. This book highlights the challenges and transformations within the field of multicultural counselling and psychotherapy by integrating debates and issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice.

Presents an overview of prejudice and racism. This text also includes practical tools for combating prejudice development in children, adolescents and adults. It emphasizes the critical role counselors, educators, and parents must play in the fight against prejudice and racism.

Examines ethnic minority cultural and traditional healing in relation to counselling and psychotherapy. This book highlights the challenges and transformations within the field of multicultural counselling and psychotherapy by integrating debates and issues of traditional healing with contemporary practice.

In this volume, leading researchers and trainers in multicultural counselling and psychology address the issues of what makes a counsellor multiculturally competent and how to create more culturally competent counsellors.The contributors consider ways to evaluate counsellors for their awareness, knowledge and skills in working with a broad spectrum of populations. Chapters also examine in detail the pedagogical implications of establishing competencies, including training philosophies and models as well as course and curriculum development.

Training modules prepared and extensively tested by distinguished professionals in cross-cultural training and research make up this valuable resource for consultants, counselling psychologists and personnel officers. The modules encourage productive and effective intercultural interactions in a variety of settings - business, education and the social and health services.Each module combines experiential exercises, self-assessment instruments, traditional written teaching material, case studies and/or critical incidents, and addresses: awareness of culture and cultural differences; knowledge necessary for adjustment; and the challenges to people's equilibrium brought about by intercultural experiences. Furthermore, each module provides opportunities to identify and practise skills to assist in people's adjustment.