Culturally Alert Counseling

A Comprehensive Introduction

• Two new chapters on counseling immigrants and refugees and counseling military populations expose students to timely and complex cultural developments.
• All chapters have been updated with the latest research and literature, presenting new evidence of important social changes.
• New illustrative case vignettes and examples and revised reader exercises go beyond cultural generalizations, providing students with significant discussions and opportunities for self-reflection.
• Updated language for diversity (use of pronouns, etc.), crucial for counselors to master, reflects the evolving nature of language as it relates to culture.

KEY FEATURES:

• Professionally-filmed, multicultural counseling demonstration videos on DVD (complete with Facilitator's Guide) are created by the author, bringing the context of the textbook to life. Companion DVDs sold separately.
• National leaders in each topic offer cutting edge presentations with a deep but readable, and uniformly formatted, treatment of each cultural area.
• Using a constructivist methodology, conceptual foundations beyond race and ethnicity are laid with discussions of social inequality, social justice, social diversity, and critical consciousness.
• Cultural groupings in theory and clinical practice are inclusive of all people, both those in dominant and non-dominant cultural groups, so that counselors can work successfully with members of various cultural backgrounds.
• Through many practical applications, such as cultural self-awareness activities, boxed anecdotes, engaging case studies, and much more, the book brings conceptual material into concrete clinical experience.
• Activities emphasize cultural self-awareness, including assessment of attitudes toward diversity and revised, research-based cultural de-centering model that helps readers reduce their own ethnocentrism.
• Key practices section includes an innovative application of narrative therapy to culture.