Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice
A Framework for Clinicians and Counselors
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-55798-768-6 (ISBN)
Description
A guide for therapists, designed to help them understand the multiplicity of cultural influences that work to form each of us. Pamela A. Hays offers the "ADDRESSING" framework for helping readers understand identity as a multidimensional combination of Age, Developmental and acquired Disabilities, Religion, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic status, Sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, Native origin, and Gender. The book should be useful to counsellors, clinicians, and any professional working with clients from a variety of diverse backgrounds.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-55798-768-6 (9781557987686)
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Book
10/2007
2nd Edition
American Psychological Association
€86.85
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Content
Seeing the Forest and the Trees - the Complexities of Culture in Practice; Becoming a Culturally Responsive Therapist; The Clinician's Mirror - Cultural Self-Assessment; Entering Another's World -Understanding Client's Identities and Contexts; Making Meaningful Connections - Establishing Respect and Rapport; Sorting Things Out -Culturally Responsive Assessment; Putting Culture to the Test -Considerations with Standardized Testing; Making Sense and Moving On - Cultural Responsive Diagnosis and the DSM-IV; How To Help Best - Culturally Responsive Therapy; Practice Doesn't Make Perfect, But it Sure Does Help - a Final Case Example.