Offering a primary focus on North American cultural and ethnic diversity while addressing global questions and issues, Counseling Across Cultures, Seventh Edition draws on the expertise of 48 invited contributors to examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling diverse clients. The book’s chapters highlight work with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as, American Indians, refugees, individuals in marginalized situations, international students, those with widely varying religious beliefs, and many others. Edited by pioneers in multicultural counseling, this volume articulates the positive contributions that can be achieved when multicultural awareness is incorporated into the training of counselors.
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Table of Content
Part I: Essential Components of Cross-Cultural CounselingChapter 1: Toward Effectiveness Through Empathy – Paul B. Pedersen & Mark Pope
Chapter 2: Counseling Encounters in Multicultural Contexts: An Introduction – Juris G. Draguns
Chapter 3: Assessment of Persons in Cross-Cultural Counseling – Walter J. Lonner
Multicultural Counseling Foundations: A Synthesis of Research Findings on Selected Topics – Timothy B. Smith, Alberto Soto & Derek Griner
Part II: Ethnocultural Contexts and Cross-Cultural Counseling
Chapter 5: Counseling North American Indigenous Peoples – John Gonzalez & Joseph E. Trimble
Chapter 6: Counseling Asian Americans: Client and Therapist Variables – Frederick T. L. Leong, D. John Lee, & Zornitsa Kalibatseva
Chapter 7: Counseling Persons of Black African Ancestry – Ivory Achebe Toldson, Kelechi C. Anyanwu, & Casilda Maxwell
Chapter 8: ¡Adelante! Counseling the Latina/o from Guiding Theory to Practice – J. Manuel Casas, A. Pati Cabrera, & Melba J. T. Vasquez
Chapter 9: Counseling Muslim and Arab Clients – Marwan Dwairy & Fatimah El-Jamil
Part III: Counseling Issues in Broadly-Defined Cultural Categories
Chapter 10: Gender, Sexism, Heterosexism and Privilege across Cultures – Michi Fu, Joe Nee & Yin-Chen Shen
Chapter 11: Counseling the Marginalized – Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Melissa Donovick, & Kee J.E. Straits
Chapter 12: Counseling in Schools: Issues and Practice – Cheryl Holcomb Mc Coy & Ileana Gonzalez
Chapter 13: Reflective Clinical Practice with People of Marginalized Sexual Identities – Eliza A. Dragowski & María R. Scharrón del-Rio
Part IV: Counseling Individuals in Transitional, Traumatic, or Emergent Situations
Chapter 14: Counseling International Students in the Context of Cross-Cultural Transitions – Nancy Arthur
Chapter 15: Counseling Immigrants and Refugees – Fred Bemak & Rita Chi-Ying Chung
Chapter 16: Counseling Survivors of Disaster – Beth Boyd
Chapter 17: Counseling in the Context of Poverty – Laura Smith & Melanie E. Brewster
Chapter 18: The Ecology of Acculturation: Implications for Counseling Across Cultures – Jaimee Stuart & Colleen Ward
Part V: Professional Counseling in a Selection of Culture-Mediated Human Conditions and Circumstances
Chapter 19: Health Psychology and Cultural Competence – Daisy R. Singla & Frances Aboud
Chapter 20: Well-being and Health – James Allen, Jordan Lewis, & Michelle Johnson-Jennings
Chapter 21: Family Counseling and Therapy with Diverse Ethnocultural Groups – Guillermo Bernal, Jennifer Morales-Cruz, & Keishalee Gómez-Arroyo
Chapter 22: Religion, Spirituality and Culture-Oriented Counseling – Mary A. Fukuyama & Ana Puig
Chapter 23: Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Health Promotion in Cross-Cultural Counseling – Lisa Rey Thomas & Dennis M. Donovan
Chapter 24: Group Dynamics in a Multicultural World – Mary B. Mc Rae
About the author
María R. Scharrón-del Río is an associate professor and the program coordinator of the School Counseling Program in the Department of School Psychology, Counseling, and Leadership (SPCL) at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). She received her Ph D in clinical psychology from the University of Puerto Rico, and completed her clinical internship at the Harvard Medical School in Boston. After moving to New York City, Scharrón-del Río worked as a child psychologist at the Washington Heights Family Health Center, a primary-care clinic that serves a predominantly Latino/a immigrant community. She is an active leader in GLARE (GLBTQ Advocacy in Research and Education) since joining the Brooklyn College faculty in 2006. Scharrón-del Río is committed to the development of multicultural competencies in counselors, psychologists, and educators using experiential and affective educational approaches. Her research, scholarship, and advocacy focuses on ethnic and cultural minority psychology and education, including multicultural competencies, LGBTQ issues, gender variance, mental health disparities, spirituality, resiliency, and well-being.Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 584 ● ISBN 9781483321684 ● File size 4.5 MB ● Editor Paul B. Pedersen & Walter J. Lonner ● Publisher SAGE Publications ● City Thousand Oaks ● Country US ● Published 2015 ● Edition 7 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5360738 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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