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Race, Culture and Counselling 2nd edition


Race, Culture and Counselling 2nd edition

Paperback by Lago, Colin

Race, Culture and Counselling

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ISBN:
9780335216949
Publication Date:
16 Nov 2005
Edition/language:
2nd edition / English
Publisher:
Open University Press
Pages:
304 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 1 May 2024
Race, Culture and Counselling

Description

Can therapy involving a therapist and client from differing cultural, ethnic and racial origins work? What are the main barriers to this relationship working well? What knowledge, skill and attitudes are required by therapists to enhance their work with "different" clients? Therapists are inevitably affected by their own backgrounds, experiences and prejudices, which may manifest negatively within therapeutic relationships with clients of different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. This book strives to explore these areas of challenge to successful therapy and to raise awareness of the many facets that may impact upon the relationship. This substantially revised edition builds upon the foundations laid down in the first edition (which addressed, amongst other subjects, issues of race and power, cultures and their impact upon communication, and a review of the dominant theoretical discourses influencing counselling and psychotherapy and how these might impact upon mixed identity therapeutic relationships,) and includes the following additions: New chapters by black and white writers working within British, American and Canadian contexts Updated information on recent changes and challenges in the field New approaches to the issues of whiteness and power, multiple identities and identity development Race, Culture and Counselling provides key reading for students, therapists, supervisors and teachers of therapists as well as students and professionals in allied professions such as social work, nursing, medicine and teaching. Contributors: Courtland Lee; Roy Moodley; Gill Tuckwell; Val Watson

Contents

Dedications List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Foreword to the first edition Introduction to the first edition Introduction The climate, the context and the challenge Issues of race and power Towards understanding culture Cultural barriers to communication Communication, language, gesture and interpretation Western theories of counselling and psychotherapy: intentions and limitations Non-Western approaches to helping Training therapists to work with different and diverse clients Addressing the context of the counselling organization Supervision and consultancy: supporting the needs of therapists in multicultural and multiracial settings The challenge of research Updating the models of identity development Key issues for black counselling practitioners in the U.K. with particular reference to their experiences in professional training Upon being a white therapist: have you noticed? Specific issues for white counsellors Approaching multiple diversity: addressing the intersections of class, gender, sexual orientation and different abilities Race and culture in counselling research References Index

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