Racial Sensitivity and Multicultural Training
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2004
176 pages
978-0-313-07321-2 (ISBN)
Description
Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism. The author shows prime examples in his homeland South Africa, and focuses on how those practices reflect assumptions concerning racial superiority. Also addressed is how therapists may be influenced by prevailing ideologies, unaware of how prejudices translate into discriminatory work practices, and ignorant of the power of their own discriminatory discourses.
The author also investigates how positive attitudes by counselors and therapists reflect positions related to racial sensitivity. He proposes a new model for multicultural and multiracial sensitivity training.
The author also investigates how positive attitudes by counselors and therapists reflect positions related to racial sensitivity. He proposes a new model for multicultural and multiracial sensitivity training.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-313-07321-2 (9780313073212)
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Martin Strous
Racial Sensitivity and Multicultural Training
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01/2004
Praeger Publishers Inc
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MARTIN STROUS is a psychotherapist and educational psychologist based in South Africa.
Content
Series Foreword
Preface
Apartheid-Style Psychology
Mental Health and Racism
Mental Health Services in South Africa: Separate and Unequal
Counselor Encapsulation
Alternatives to Apartheid-Style Psychology
Democratic and Client Empowering Initiatives
Postmodernism, Social Constructionism, and Their Confluence with Democratic Ideals
Training Models
Hearing Clients' Inner Talk in Multicultural Contexts: Pedersen's Triad Model
Hearing Counselor Self-Talk: The Anticlient-Proclient Model
Difference and Interplay between Anticlient and Proclient Positions: Initial Research Findings
Afterword
References
Index
Preface
Apartheid-Style Psychology
Mental Health and Racism
Mental Health Services in South Africa: Separate and Unequal
Counselor Encapsulation
Alternatives to Apartheid-Style Psychology
Democratic and Client Empowering Initiatives
Postmodernism, Social Constructionism, and Their Confluence with Democratic Ideals
Training Models
Hearing Clients' Inner Talk in Multicultural Contexts: Pedersen's Triad Model
Hearing Counselor Self-Talk: The Anticlient-Proclient Model
Difference and Interplay between Anticlient and Proclient Positions: Initial Research Findings
Afterword
References
Index
