Product Description: Shows readers how to reach beyond the comfort zone of an individualistic perspective and increase competence in a relationship-centered context. This book helps readers learn how to help clients explore, discover, and leverage those internalized voices of their culture teachers that teach us who we are, and how to resolve our problems...read more

Product Description: Dr. Paul B. Pedersen shows how recognizing the centrality of culture can augment therapy and result in effective treatment of all clients. This approach involves recognizing cultural assumptions and acquiring knowledge and skills to get beyond them, something that may be done no matter what treatment model a therapist might use...read more

Product Description: The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact between students and host nationals in the context of culture shock experiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a comprehensive and well elaborated review of conceptual frameworks for counseling and therapy in cross-cultural problems. Most of the widely-spread literature is organized into groups, methodology is presented in an even flow with access to diagnostic considerations, and the variety of racial and cultural parameters encountered in the subject is thus made clear...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)