Product Description: Using a case incident approach to teaching cultural sensitivity from a global perspective, this book explores the nature of cross-cultural transitions with clients from around the world. Specifically, it focuses on the many opportunities and challenges international workers, students, immigrants, refugees, and military personnel face at various transitional stages from initial entry to the host culture to returning home...read more

Product Description: This volume uses fascinating therapeutic encounters to help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of their increasingly diverse clientele. Emphasizing the importance of balancing general cultural awareness with a consciousness of openness and curiosity, Murphy-Shigematsu urges clinicians to look beyond their assumptions and stereotypes to learn their clients' cultures through eliciting key narratives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Counsellors and other mental health professionals are increasingly encountering clients who differ from them in terms of race, culture, and ethnicity. Unfortunately many have not been trained to understand how powerfully culture affects our view of the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)