Practicing Multiculturalism
Subtitle: Affirming Diversity in Counseling and Psychology
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: May 20, 2003
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Format: Trade Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780205336401
Table of contents: title: Practicing multiculturalism: an introduction. Why practice multiculturalism? -- The aim of multiculturalism -- Making the implicit explicit: addressing power and culture -- Multicultural competencies -- The secret to successful multicultural practice: practicing multiculturalism -- The multicultural context of mental health -- The multicultural context of mental health. The historical context of culture and mental health -- Multicultural mental health theory -- Multicultural counseling skills -- Multiculturalism as a “fourth force” -- Multicultural issues and controversies -- Awareness and identity: foundational principles of multicultural practice. Psychological blindness -- Two case illustrations -- Racial identity theory -- Racial identity assessments: the cases of Mr. Sol and Ms. Hopkins -- Spiritual identity and awareness -- Racial interaction model: the facilitation of awareness in counseling and psychotherapy -- Intercultural communication as contexts for mindful achievement. Intercultural communication and its obstacles -- Assumptions about intercultural communication contexts -- The roles of emotion management and confrontation in intercultural communication -- Developing intercultural competence through emotion management and mindful communication -- Working from within: contextual mental health and organizational competence. Springboards for contextual practice -- Overview -- Underpinnings of contextual mental health -- Organizational dilemmas -- Community mental health practices -- Barriers to cultural-centered practice -- Openly addressing resistance among counselors and psychologists -- Multidimensional activism for change -- A contextual approach to assessment. Assessing client contexts -- Evaluating procedural contexts -- Facilitating accurate counselor and therapist perceptions of context: recognizing and correcting personal biases -- Effective interventions with children of color and their families: a contextual developmental approach. Interaction of factors influencing child development: the ecological systems approach -- Biases in research and practice that trivialize the importance of context -- Effective practice with children of color through understanding unique cultural contexts -- Counseling and psychotherapy with African American clients. Descriptive information -- Key cultural conflicts encountered when working with African Americans -- Contextual issues -- Recommended approaches to counseling and therapy -- Counseling and psychotherapy with Latinos / Latina clients. Descriptive information about Latinos / Latinas -- Psychosociocultural and diversity considerations -- Considerations with Latino/a subpopulations -- Counseling and psychotherapy with Asian American clients. Demographics and sociopolitical history -- Family dynamics and issues -- Age and cohort issues -- Gender issues -- Spiritual beliefs, values, and practices -- View of mental health professions -- Strategies for counseling and psychotherapy -- Case examples -- Counseling and psychotherapy with Native American clients. Contextual issues -- Treatment issues and approaches -- Appropriate interventions -- Counseling and psychotherapy with Arab American clients. An introduction to Arab Americans -- Arab Americans' worldview -- Treatment considerations -- Counseling and psychotherapy for acculturation and ethnic identity concerns with immigrant and international student clients. Models of acculturation -- Case studies of South Asian immigrants and implications for therapy -- Case studies of international students and implications for therapy -- Religious and spiritual diversity in counseling and psychotherapy. Addressing religious and spiritual diversity in counseling and psychotherapy -- Five major religious groups in North America -- Understanding classism to effect personal change. Social class in counseling and therapy -- The need for a subjective approach to understanding social class -- The social class worldview -- What is classism? -- What to do about classism in training -- Understanding individuals in their context: a relational perspective of multicultural counseling and psychotherapy. Need to identify and challenge individualism in counseling and psychology -- A relational foundation for counseling and psychology.