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Colin Lago - Race, Culture and Counselling - 9780335216949 - V9780335216949
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Race, Culture and Counselling

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Description for Race, Culture and Counselling Paperback. Includes perspectives on the impact of race, culture, and language in therapy. This book discusses topics such as: issues concerning race and power; the impact culture has on communication; how dominant theories influence counseling; and, the concept of mixed-identity therapeutic relationships. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JKSN2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
  • Can therapy involving a therapist and client from differing cultural, ethnic and racial origins work?
  • What are the main barriers to this relationship working well?
  • What knowledge, skill and attitudes are required by therapists to enhance their work with “different” clients?
Therapists are inevitably affected by their own backgrounds, experiences and prejudices, which may manifest negatively within therapeutic relationships with clients of different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. This book strives to explore these areas of challenge to successful therapy and to raise awareness of the many facets that may impact upon the relationship.

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  • New chapters by black and white writers working within British, American and Canadian contexts
  • Updated information on recent changes and challenges in the field
  • New approaches to the issues of whiteness and power, multiple identities and identity development
Race, Culture and Counselling provides key reading for students, therapists, supervisors and teachers of therapists as well as students and professionals in allied professions such as social work, nursing, medicine and teaching.

Contributors: Courtland Lee; Roy Moodley; Gill Tuckwell; Val Watson

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Product Details

Publisher
Open University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
449g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780335216949
SKU
V9780335216949
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Colin Lago
Shaindl Diamond is a Ph.D. student in the Counselling Psychology Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). J. Roy Gillis is an assistant professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Colin Lago ... Read more

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