CONTENTS
Preface = ⅸ
Part One = The Polittical Dimensions of Mental Health Practice = 1
Chapter 1 The Politics of Counseling and Psychotherapy = 3
THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE UNITED STATES = 8
THE DEUCATION AND TRAINING OF MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS = 11
COUNSELING AND MENTAL HEALTH LITERATURE = 17
RELEVANCE OF RESEARCH = 22
A CALL TO THE PROFESSION = 24
Chapter 2 Socipolitical Considerations of Tust and Mistrust in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy = 27
EFFECTS OF HISTORICAL AND CURRENT OPPRESSION = 31
CREDIBILITY AND ATTRACTIVENESS IN MULITICULTURAL COUNSELING = 39
CONCLUSIONS = 48
Part Two The Practice Dimensions of Multicultural Counseling and Therapy = 51
Chapter 3 Barriers to Effective Muliticultural Counselign and Therapy = 53
COUNSELING AND THERAPY CHARACTERISTICS = 58
SOURCES OF CONFLICT AND MISINTERPRETATION IN THERAPY = 62
GENERALIZATIONS AND STEREOTYPES : SOME CAUTIONS = 72
Chapter 4 Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies = 74
COMMUNICATION STYLES = 76
SOCIOPOLITICAL FACETS OF NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION = 84
COUNSELING AND THERAPY AS COMMUNICATION STYLE = 90
Chapter 5 Multicultural Family Counseling and Therapy = 97
FAMILY SYSTEMS COUNSELING AND THERAPY = 102
ISSUES IN WORKING WITH ETHNIC MINORITY FAMILES = 103
MULTICULTURAL FMAILY COUNSELING AND THERARY : ACONCEPTUAL MODEL = 108
CULTICULTURAL FAMILY THERAPY : PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS = 115
Part Three Woldviews in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy = 119
Chapter 6 Racial and Cultural Identity Developement : Therapeutic Implications = 121
RACLAL AND CULTUAL CULTURAL INDETITY DEVELOPMENT MODELS = 123
THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS OF R/CID MODEL = 137
CAUTIONS AND LIMITATIONS IN THE FORMUSATION OF RACIAL AND CULTURAL INDETITY MODELS = 141
Chapter 7 White Racial indetity Development : Therapeutic Implications = 143
MODELS OF WHITE RACIAL INDENTITY DEVELOPMINT = 147
THE PROCESS OF WHITE RACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT : A DESCRIPTIVE MODEL = 155
IMPLICALTIONS FOR COUNSELING AND MULTICULTURAL THERAPY = 159
Chapter 8 Dimensions of Worldviews = 164
VALUE-ORINETATION MODEL OF WORLDVIEW = 167
FORMATION OF WORLDVIEWS = 173
CONCLUSIONS = 181
SOME CAUTIONS = 183
Part Four Multicultural Couseling and Therapy Competence = 185
Chapter 9 Non-Western and Indingenous Methods of Healing = 187
THE LEGITIMACY OF CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES : NIGHTMARE DEATHS AND THE HMONG SUDDEN DEATH PHENOMENON = 189
THE PRINCIPLES OF INDIGENOUS HEALING = 196
INDIGENOUS HEALING : GUIDELINES FOR MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY = 204
Chapter 10 Becoming Multiculturally Competent : Organizational and Professional Development = 208
DEVELOPING MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE = 214
MODELS OF MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT = 214
PROFESSIONAL MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCE = 220
CHARACTERISTICES OF THE CULTURALLY COMPETNET MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL = 224
CONCLUSIONS = 232
Part Five Counseling and Therapy with Specific Populations = 233
Chapter 11 Counseling African Americans = 235
AFRICAN AMERICANS : CONCERNS FOR THERAPY = 237
BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE CROSS-CULTURAL COUNSELING = 248
GROUP COUNSELING = 250
CONSULTATION = 252
CONCLUSIONS = 253
Chapter 12 Counseling Asian Americans = 255
ASIAN AMERICANS : A SUCCESS STORY? = 256
FORCES SHAPING THE IDENTITY OF ASIAN AMERICANS = 258
SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF RECENT IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES = 260
VALUE CONFLICTS AND COUNSELING = 262
TREATMENT STRATEGIES = 264
CONCLUSIONS = 270
Chapter 13 Counseling Americna Indians and ALaskan Natives = 272
THE AMERICAN INDIAN/THE ALAKAN NATIVE = 274
PROBLEM AREAS = 274
COUNSELING AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDREN AND YOUTH = 282
COUNSELING ISSUES = 283
Chapter 14 Counseling Hispanic Americans = 286
HISPANIC AMERICANS : COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES = 287
CLIENT PROBLEMS = 297
COUNSELING CONSIDERATIONS, STRATEGIES, AND MODALITIES = 299
CONCLUSION = 303
Chapter 15 Counseling Gays and Lesbians, Women, the Elderly, and Persons with Disabilities = 304
COUNSELING GAY MEN AND LESBIAN WOMEN = 305
COUNSELING ELDERLY CLIENTS = 309
COUNSELING WOMEN = 315
COUNSELING PERSONS WITH DISABILITES = 321
References = 327
Indexes = 359
