Dimensions of Multicultural Counseling
A Life Story Approach
Thomas, Anita Jones
Schwarzbaum, Sara
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Story is one of the most powerful ways to creating meaning. This collection of life stories offers compelling narratives by individuals from different races, ethnic groups, religions, sexual orientations, and social classes. By weaving these engaging stories with relevant theoretical topics, this unique textbook provides deeper levels of understanding on how cultural factors influence identity, personality, worldview, and mental health. Using a content-theme analysis, Dimensions of Multicultural Counseling: A Life Story Approach allows readers to easily grasp the relationship between multiple dimensions and the formation of identity. Aÿ
Key Features and Benefits
- Combines theory and practice as each life story is followed by a clinical applications section, which contain practical ideas for working with clients who have similar storiesAÿ
- Allows for easy classroom assignments since each section in the book can be read independently
- Devotes full chapters to topics not found in other textbooks: Oppression and Resilience; Sexual Orientation; Multicultural Theory
- Offers useful toolbox activities, which gives students additional resources for further exploration
Praise for the authors' precursory work: "Culture and Identity: Life Stories for Counselors and Therapists is a brilliant revolution in our way of looking at culture and identity through an understanding of diverse people's diverse life stories. Reading each character's story helps us learn how distinct each individual life is and how rich and diverse our world is. It packs rich and diverse information derived from firsthand, and intimate stories." Aÿ- PsycCritiques
Also available with this book
An Instructor's Resource CD with supplemental materials for each chapter and a helpful internet study site atAÿ
http://www.sagepub.com/dimensionsofmulticulturalcounselingstudy/Aÿoffer further opportunities examine and apply this mosaic of rich subject matter. AÿAÿAÿAÿAÿAÿAÿAÿAÿ Aÿ
Intended Audience This core text may be used in upper level undergraduate or graduate courses in counseling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, and human services. A valuable resource for understanding cultural factors in clinical work, it will enhance the clinical skills of mental health providers who work with diverse client populations. Aÿ Aÿ
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1412951364
Dewey Decimal: 158/.3
Library of Congress: 2007036394
Book Publisher: Sage Pubns
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 419
