Counseling Across Cultures, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive examination of the increasing priority of culture in the counseling process. The contributors examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling, highlighting work with groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, refugees, and international students. Chapters also consider culturally appropriate counseling methods as they relate to gender, aged populations, health psychology, and school settings. 

Product Description: The Second Edition of Preventing Prejudice: A Guide for Counselors, Educators, and Parents has been completely revised and expanded to provide the most up-to-date and extensive coverage of prejudice and racism available. The new edition of this bestselling text presents a comprehensive overview of these topics and also includes practical tools for combating prejudice development in children, adolescents, and adults...read more

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Product Description: This volume introduces innovative ways of understanding and dealing with issues of multiculturalism in counselling. The author emphasizes that understanding the culture of clients is indispensable to the practice of good counselling...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume introduces innovative ways of understanding and dealing with issues of multiculturalism in counselling. The author emphasizes that understanding the culture of clients is indispensable to the practice of good counselling...read more

Styles of conflict management vary across cultures. This unique volume uses cases drawn from the Asian and Pacific Island area to illustrate culture's role in conflict mediation. The contributors focus in particular on how conflict within and between cultures can be successfully mediated on the micro-level (businesses and individuals) and how this success can be applied on the macro-level (government and organizations). The cases examined in Constructive Conflict Management cover a variety of conflict types including: regional//cultural; nuclear and extended family; environmental; and neighbourhood disputes. The book reveals that, rather than a barrier, culture can prove to be a positive resource for the mediation of

Product Description: This must read for any helping professional is the first book to present a theory of multicultural counseling and therapy. After the authors presentation of their theory, experts in specific areas of the field (traditional theories of counseling, research, practice, training, organizational development, ethnocentricism/bias in counseling, and specific populations) present their views on the proposed theory and comment on how it applies to their particular areas of expertise...read more

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This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations. (view table of contents)

As the global community becomes more interdependent, the need for a reduction in negative racial prejudice increases. Counsellors and educators can play a vital role in this process, and this comprehensive book presents a model and mechanism which will help accomplish such a goal. The authors provide an excellent, pragmatic resource for understanding the nature of prejudice and directions for intervention that include a series of developmentally-sequenced exercises and activities. The book draws on theory and research - influential in the field of counsellor education - from counselling, psychology, education and sociology.

Product Description: The purpose of this volume is to provide students, teachers, and professionals with a historical, conceptual, and applied resource for cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy. Cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy refers to those behavior change activities which involve clients and therapists from different ethnocultural traditions...read more