Counseling across cultures (7th ed.)

Offering a primary focus on North American cultural and ethnic diversity while addressing global questions and issues, Counseling Across Cultures, Seventh Edition  draws on the expertise of 48 invited contributors to examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling diverse clients. The book’s chapters highlight work with African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as, American Indians, refugees, individuals in marginalized situations, international students, those with widely varying religious beliefs, and many others. Edited by pioneers in multicultural counseling, this volume articulates the positive contributions that can be achieved when multicultural awareness is incorporated into the training of counselors.

PART I: ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COUNSELING

Paul B. Pedersen & Mark Pope

Chapter 1: Toward Effectiveness Through Empathy

Juris G. Draguns

Chapter 2: Counseling Encounters in Multicultural Contexts: An Introduction

Walter J. Lonner

Chapter 3: Assessment of Persons in Cross-Cultural Counseling

Timothy B. Smith, Alberto Soto & Derek Griner

Multicultural Counseling Foundations: A Synthesis of Research Findings on Selected Topics

PART II: ETHNOCULTURAL CONTEXTS AND CROSS-CULTURAL COUNSELING

John Gonzalez & Joseph E. Trimble

Chapter 5: Counseling North American Indigenous Peoples

Frederick T. L. Leong, D. John Lee, & Zornitsa Kalibatseva

Chapter 6: Counseling Asian Americans: Client and Therapist Variables

Ivory Achebe Toldson, Kelechi C. Anyanwu, & Casilda Maxwell

Chapter 7: Counseling Persons of Black African Ancestry

J. Manuel Casas, A. Pati Cabrera, & Melba J. T. Vasquez

Chapter 8: ¬°Adelante! Counseling the Latina/o from Guiding Theory to Practice

Marwan Dwairy & Fatimah El-Jamil

Chapter 9: Counseling Muslim and Arab Clients

PART III: COUNSELING ISSUES IN BROADLY-DEFINED CULTURAL CATEGORIES

Michi Fu, Joe Nee & Yin-Chen Shen

Chapter 10: Gender, Sexism, Heterosexism and Privilege across Cultures

Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez, Melissa Donovick, & Kee J.E. Straits

Chapter 11: Counseling the Marginalized

Cheryl Holcomb McCoy & Ileana Gonzalez

Chapter 12: Counseling in Schools: Issues and Practice

Eliza A. Dragowski & Mar√≠a R. Scharr√≥n del-Rio 

Chapter 13: Reflective Clinical Practice with People of Marginalized Sexual Identities

PART IV: COUNSELING INDIVIDUALS IN TRANSITIONAL, TRAUMATIC, OR EMERGENT SITUATIONS

Nancy Arthur

Chapter 14: Counseling International Students in the Context of Cross-Cultural Transitions

Fred Bemak & Rita Chi-Ying Chung

Chapter 15: Counseling Immigrants and Refugees

Beth Boyd

Chapter 16: Counseling Survivors of Disaster

Laura Smith & Melanie E. Brewster

Chapter 17: Counseling in the Context of Poverty

Jaimee Stuart & Colleen Ward

Chapter 18: The Ecology of Acculturation: Implications for Counseling Across Cultures

PART V: PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING IN A SELECTION OF CULTURE-MEDIATED HUMAN CONDITIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES

Daisy R. Singla & Frances Aboud

Chapter 19: Health Psychology and Cultural Competence

James Allen, Jordan Lewis, & Michelle Johnson-Jennings

Chapter 20: Well-being and Health

Guillermo Bernal, Jennifer Morales-Cruz, & Keishalee Gómez-Arroyo

Chapter 21: Family Counseling and Therapy with Diverse Ethnocultural Groups

Mary A. Fukuyama & Ana Puig

Chapter 22: Religion, Spirituality and Culture-Oriented Counseling

Lisa Rey Thomas & Dennis M. Donovan

Chapter 23: Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Health Promotion in Cross-Cultural Counseling

Mary B. McRae

Chapter 24: Group Dynamics in a Multicultural World