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Handbook of Multicultural Counseling
by Joseph Ponterotto, J . Manuel Casas, Lisa A. Suzuki, Charlene M. Alexander
 
 

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
A comprehensive text that presents recent advances in theory, research, practice, and training in the field of multicultural counseling, for students and professionals in counseling and related disciplines. It discusses the historical foundation of the multicultural movement in psychology, provides an ethical statement on the status of the profession, examines the latest developments in racial/ethnic identity and acculturation theory, and offers multicultural perspectives on various kinds of counseling, and intelligence and personality assessment. It further provides integrative reviews of the most recent empirical research.
Paper edition (5507-3), $36. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Review
�This second edition of the Handbook of Multicultural Counseling marks an important turning point. It brings together the voices of some pioneers who have paved the way, and introduces us to new voices, who, while influenced by the pioneers, have taken different paths. Because the multicultural community is well represented in content and scholarship in this second addition, the reader can be assured that the view points represented in this book speak to the core issues of the field.

I am excited about this Handbook because the authors answer the question that is often heard at many a conference: Where is the research to support multicultural counseling? I am equally excited about this Handbook because it breaks new ground by using as its anchor, oral histories, which demonstrates that for many of us multicultural counseling is not simply a research agenda, but a life long journey, that cannot always be measured. The underlying theme of social justice only reinforces our commitment to this journey.

Drs. Ponterotto, Casas, Suzuki, and Alexander have once again helped shape the multicultural conversation. To those who have often said, �Where is the research,� look no further.�
 

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Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
 by Derald Wing Sue, David Sue
 

Editorial Reviews
Review
�We have come a long way from 1972 when AMCD was initially chartered as the Association of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance. Derald Wing Sue and David Sue's new book, Counseling the Culturally Diverse, opens with a giant bull's-eye that very elegantly depicts the current conceptualization of multiculturals and diversity. This conceptualization is complex, with a focus on addressing multiple components and layers such as race, gender, sexual orientation, religious preference, culture, disability/ability, ethnicity, geographic location, age and even marital status.� � Counseling Today (ACA publication), David Kaplan, President of ACA

Book Description
The bestselling resource and most cited reference in multicultural counseling and therapy
Thoroughly revised, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Fourth Edition is �the classic� in the field of multicultural counseling and therapy. This latest edition offers a contemporary expansion of the definition of multicultural counseling that pushes the boundaries of the field and allows for a more inclusive and meaningful way of looking at and treating diverse populations.
Noted experts Derald Wing Sue and David Sue have updated the book to include new developments in research, theory, and practice. Major additions include: a more expansive definition of multiculturalism; the most recent statistics on the changing complexion of society; and implications for counseling and clinical practice that these changes have precipitated, which are forcing clinicians to redefine their roles and reeducate themselves on how to tend to these varied populations.

Completely updated, Counseling the Culturally Diverse includes:
New chapters on counseling biracial/multiracial populations, women, gays/lesbians, the physically challenged, the elderly, and monocultural organizations
A new section in every chapter covering �Implications for Clinical Practice�
Updated chapters on counseling African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino/Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans
New clinical case studies and real-life examples illustrating the concepts of multicultural counseling and therapy in action
Combining a sound conceptual framework for multicultural counseling with proven therapeutic methods for specific populations, Counseling the Culturally Diverse remains the best source of real-world counseling preparation for students and the most enlightened and influential guide for all mental health professionals.
 


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Ethnicity and Family Therapy: Second Edition
by Monica McGoldrick (Editor), John K. Pearce (Editor), Joseph Giordano (Editor)

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
Forty-eight articles encompass the broad range of cultural influences encountered in clinical practice today. The articles are arranged by ethnicity into nine sections: American Indian, Latino, Asian American, Middle Eastern, Asian Indian, Jewish and Slavic families and families of African and European origin. Each section includes an overview chapter and chapters which address specific nationalities. The text is designed for advanced courses in family therapy, social work, psychotherapy, and counseling.
Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Review
�...the book managed to achieve the editors' stated objectives of maintaining the richness of cultural descriptive and case material that was evident in the first edition, while including the necessary perspectives of sociopolitical context addressing power and racism....The chapter on African American families...is one of the best discussions of black family structure and adaptation that I have seen....The book is worth purchasing and will serve as a valuable reference source.� � Journal of Family Therapy

�...an essential resource....the reorganization by the editors reflects changing demographics in U.S. society, making this book useful and up to date....I would recommend Ethnicity and Family Therapy as one of our foremost resources to date for understanding the impact of ethnicity in family meanings. It is one of the most comprehensive and interesting works available. This text will have a widespread impact on the field by continuing to bring the forces of ethnicity to the forefront of marriage and family therapy.� � Journal of Family Psychotherapy

�...captures in one resourceful book a rich array of ethnic paradigms....Both beginning students and seasoned family clinicians working in multicultural communities can benefit from the 'culture vision' inspired by the unique ethnic paradigms presented in this comprehensive book....An invaluable resource for the family practitioner in pursuit of cultural competence.� � Journal of Multicultural Social Work

�This well-edited and comprehensive volume should prove to be of great value to psychotherapists of all orientations....Most specific chapters begin with historical accounts and cultural overviews. These informative materials will help any psychotherapist appreciate the factors affecting individual patients and families as they strive to accept and adjust to American societal expectations....Clinicians would be wise to keep a copy of this volume available for consultation to enhance their ability to provide culturally competent assessment and treatment.� � American Journal of Psychiatry

�This text was written with a professional audience in mind, but as I began reading it, it also became a personal guide for understanding my own background and culture in relation to others....The chapters are brief, but rich. Each contains an historical overview of the people, including their migration experiences, that provides a context for understanding values, traits, and traditions of the group....Ethnicity and Family Therapy has a much broader audience and application than that of family therapists; this book will speak to any professional who works with people.� � The Journal of Family Practice

�A valuable addition to every library and community mental health clinic.� � Readings

�While the book is addressed to family therapists, the history, culture, and background in each chapter can be appreciated by anyone....(Its) combination of quality presentation and accessibility...will attract diverse readers, regardless of their level of training or experience with diverse clients.� � Family Medicine

�The editors present ethnic profiles and case studies without stereotyping and make specific suggestions regarding clinical engagement and intervention.� � Black Caucus of the ALA Newsletter

�This book will be of great assistance to social workers and others in the helping professions.� �The Social Worker

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Re-Visioning Family Therapy: Race, Culture, and Gender in Clinical Practice
 by Monica McGoldrick (Editor)

 

Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
Situating family therapy within its current cultural and sociological context, chapters reveal the biases that underlie prevailing conceptions of family health and pathology; influence the process and perceived goals of therapy; and impede therapists' vision both of their clients and themselves. Contributors also offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives.
Book News, Inc.�, Portland, OR  � This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
�Once again Monica McGoldrick succeeds in her efforts to lead us forward in our thinking about families and family therapy with written words that stretch even the most culturally aware and sensitive therapists. She has conscientiously brought the work of several distinguished authors together to have us broaden and 're-view' our thinking and practice with families through a cultural lens....I cannot think of a clinician, supervisor, educator, researcher, student, or therapist-in-training who would not find this volume useful in their practice of family therapy. Unlike other volumes in this area there was an energizing quality in the contents of this book which activated me to think and act, rather than just passively digest information about culturally diverse families.� � Journal of Family Psychotherapy

�On the whole, Re-Visioning Family Therapy is carefully edited, the chapters well written, and the messages thoughtful and thought provoking....I recommend it as reading for all mental health professionals.� � Psychiatric Services

�A timely and comprehensive source, this anthology provides a cultural lens for contextualizing reality. Amassing a stellar list of contributors, the book expands our views of families and establishes therapy as a more inclusive endeavor. Re-Visioning Family Therapy is an essential resource for every practitioner working with multicultural populations.� � Lillian Comas-D�az, PhD, Director, Transcultural Mental Health Institute; Editor-in-chief, Cultural Diversity and Mental Health

�With her visionary energy, Monica McGoldrick brings us a rare and satisfying book that extends the meaning of family therapy, expands the consciousness of the therapist, and insists that the reader be deeply changed in some fundamental way. To pay careful attention to the compelling insights in this volume �and I suggest you do �is to take a large evolutionary leap forward.� � Harriet Lerner, PhD, author of The Dance of Anger

�This book delivers more than a new vision of family therapy. The contributors give us new practices, new theories, and new theories of practice which have revolutionary implications for all psychotherapies and thus for all clients who share their lives, cultures, and problems with us. This paradigm-shifting volume documents and illuminates how culture is not only a label for the 'other,' but a coat of many colors which gives meaning, feeling, and value to all our lives, and which, once we take the measure of its profundity, will explode our common-sense notions of identity, psyche, and psychotherapy.� � Virginia Goldner, PhD, Senior Faculty, Ackerman Institute for the Family

�...offers compelling perspectives on society's most divisive issues and enhances the cultural competence of new and experienced therapists alike in working with families....contributors offer concrete suggestions for improving family therapy training and developing services that minority families may experience as more relevant to their lives....recommended for family therapy students, psychotherapy, social work, and counseling.� � Wisconsin Bookwatch

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Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender : Multiple Identities in Counseling, The (2nd Edition)
 by Tracey L. Robinson

 

Editorial Reviews
Excerpt. � Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

As we learn to bear the intimacy of scrutiny and to flourish within it, as we learn to use the products of that scrutiny for power within our living, those fears which rule our lives and form our silences begin to lose their control over us.
� Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

In 1989, as a new Assistant Professor, I started talking about convergence. What I meant by convergence was the intersections of race, ethnicity, gender, and other primary identity constructs within the context of counseling. Each of these constructs is critical to a person's emotional and psychological development and each intersects with other human dimensions. Recently, these intersecting identities have been receiving greater attention in the multicultural counseling literature. Prior to this, much of the literature focused on individual aspects of identity (most often race, culture, or ethnicity) and their subsequent influences on a cross-cultural counseling event in which the client was a person of color and the counselor was not. A consideration of how multiple identities, visible and invisible, converge simultaneously and affect development, behavior, and the counseling event itself was missing.
This new paradigm for imaging differences, both visible and invisible, allows each of us to engage in the unrelenting process of increasing self-awareness as gendered, cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual, and cultural beings influenced by class, ability, and disability That differences exist is not refuted nor regarded as problematic. The inequity promoted and perpetuated within a society in which immutable human characteristics hold rank is the problem.

Multicultural counseling emphasizes an ecological framework in which person-environment interaction, culture, ethnicity, family, collective society, history, and spirituality are regarded as fundamental to understanding the client in therapy. Multicultural counseling also recognizes the way in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate feelings of inadequacy, shame, confusion, and distrust for clients in both the counseling process and the larger society

The overall goal of this work is to engage in a dialectical, �both/and� discussion about how identity constructs operate conjointly in people's lives to affect personal development and problem presentation in counseling. The response to the first edition from colleagues and students has been inspiring and humbling. This second edition offers an updated format with new chapters, case studies, and storytellings. New and existing theories and research are discussed, and greater attention is devoted to the application of clinical practice. In a spirit of Umoja (unity) and Ujima (collective work and responsibility), I acknowledge and celebrate the good work that elders, colleagues, and students have done and continue to do in multicultural counseling.

 

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Culture and Counseling : New Approaches
 by Frederick D. Harper, John McFadden
 




Editorial Reviews
From Book News, Inc.
This text presents the latest theories, research, counseling approaches, and cultural viewpoints on cultural aspects of counseling, offering national and international counseling perspectives and encompassing a variety of counseling concerns and clientele groups. Chapters are in sections on cultural viewpoints of counseling, ethnicity and counseling, international and intercultural dimensions, intervention and prevention, and special topics such as training and supervision and applications of technological advances. Harper teaches counseling at Howard University; McFadden is in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of South Carolina.
Copyright � 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Description
Culture and Counseling has been designed to serve as a resource for professionals in the fields of Multicultural Counseling, Cross-Cultural Counseling, or Diversity and Culture in Counseling. In this authoritative new book, leading authors address culture and counseling as related to theoretical models, American ethnicities, spirituality, immigrants, intercultural families, gender, sexual orientation, diagnosis and interventions, supervision, and ethics. Counseling professionals, psychologists.

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Overcoming Our Racism: The Journey to Liberation
 by Derald Wing Sue
 

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This uncompromising anti-racist manifesto written for a white audience is concerned less with Klansmen and skinheads than with the white woman clutching her purse when minority teenagers draw near; the white man flinching at getting in an elevator full of black men; even the well-meaning but patronizing liberal teacher in a ghetto school. Sue, a Chinese-American psychologist, argues that the countless daily slights inflicted by such �unconscious and unintentional racists,� do more harm to minorities than the occasional hate-crime. He reveals the subtle but pervasive bias against minorities in the economy, the media, school system, even the subconscious mind (whites have involuntary negative reactions when flashed subliminal images of black faces), and shows how the �invisible whiteness of being� allows whites to remain oblivious to the privileges they enjoy. The book demands that whites �accept responsibility for their whiteness,� and includes suggested readings, videotapes, and exercises to help whites unearth and deal with their biases and learn to mingle with minorities. It includes a seven-phase program for reconstructing a non-racist white identity, culminating in a conversion experience, complete with emotional catharsis and adoption of a �second family� of minorities and other �liberated whites.� Whites may bridle at Sue's accusatory tone and find the recovery-movement tone of his remedy off-putting. But many will feel a painful shock of recognition at his subtle but unsparing analysis of everyday racism, and find this provocative book a compelling challenge to their complacency.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
This extraordinary book by Derald Wing Sue, a highly-regarded academic and author, helps readers understand and combat racism in themselves. It defines racism not only as extreme acts of hatred, but as �any attitude, action or institutional structure or social policy that subordinates a person or group because of their color.� This landmark work offers an antidote to this pervasive social problem.
Shows how each of us has a role in the oppression of others, and what we can do about it
Offers a way to overcome racism on a very intimate level.
Outlines specific guidelines and suggested activities.
 

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