Counseling Across Cultures - Softcover

Pedersen, Paul B.; Draguns, Juris G.; Lonner, Walter J.; Trimble, Joseph E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761920862 ISBN 13: 9780761920861

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pedersen Paul B Draguns Juris G Lonner Walter J Tr

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Críticas

'The editors have masterfully accomplished their goals of "articulating the positive contributions that can be made by incorporating multicultural awareness in the training of skilled counsellors". The Fourth Edition of Counseling across Cultures is an excellent source of information and remains a classic in its field' - Contemporary

Reseña del editor

Counseling Across Cultures, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive examination of the increasing priority of culture in the counselling process.The contributors examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counselling, highlighting work with groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, refugees, and international students.Chapters also consider cultually appropriate counselling methods as they relate to gender, aged populations, health psychology, and school settings.

Features/Benefits

- Study questions at the end of each chapter help instructors with guiding students' in-class discussion and testing of materials.

- Primary and secondary objectives placed at the beginning of each chapter give students assistance in understanding key points for each chapter.

- Up-to-date knowledge presented in each chapter provides students with the state of the art in research relating to and standards of practice for cross-cultural and multicultural counselling

- Authoritative editors and contributors - recognized as leaders in this field provide their expertise

New to This Edition

Study questions at the end of each chapter. New chapters on: counselling aging individuals, school counselling, counselling individuals from specialized, marginalized, and undeserved groups (such as individuals from outsider religious faiths, persons with special health problems, and those from low-income areas), spiritual issues, multicultural aspects of health psychology, conducting research on cross-cultural and multicultural counseling. Expanded coverage of refugees and their families, counselling international students and sojourners, Pacific Islanders, and various clinical approaches to counselling the culturally different. Revised chapter organization: Chapters are now organized into 4 distinct sections, thus improving conceptualization of the area.

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• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761920862
• ISBN 13: 9780761920861
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472