Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction

This is the first comprehensive guide to culturally alert counseling, complete with a companion demonstration DVD, that is readable and experiential. Editor Garrett J. McAuliffe expands the traditional "definition" of multicultural counseling from the usual two categories of race and ethnicity to eight categories that include: race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion/spirituality, ability/disability, class, and sexual orientation. With case vignettes and interactive activities, students will be informed, moved, and changed by the encounters with culture that lie in these pages. Key Features
• Offers cutting-edge presentations for each cultural area: National leaders in each topic present a deep but readable, and uniformly formatted, treatment of each cultural area.
• Goes beyond race and ethnicity: Using a constructivist methodology, conceptual foundations are laid in discussions of social inequality, social justice, social diversity, and critical consciousness.
• Intersects cultural groupings in theory and clinical practice: Inclusive of all people, both those in dominant and non-dominant cultural groups, so that counselors can work successfully with members of various cultural backgrounds.
• Brings conceptual material into concrete experience: Through many practical applications, such as cultural self-awareness activities, boxed anecdotes, engaging case studies, and much more, the book emphasizes clinical experience. Accompanied by High-Quality Ancillaries! A companion DVD titled Culturally Alert Counseling: A Demonstration of Key Practices, vividly illustrates how to engage in culturally alert counseling.