Publisher Description

`The book contains comprehensive coverage of issues relating to multicultural counselling, still current ten years after the first of the collected papers was published. The discussion points after each chapter give the whole book a text-book feel, which belies its more general significance as a professional



'Raising cultural awareness and challenging assumptions, this book will be essential reading' - Stress News





Race is a complex and sensitive subject which has a direct and significant bearing on counselling. Multicultural Counselling provides insights and provokes debate about the impact of race and ethnicity on counsellors, their clients and the therapeutic process.





Edited by Stephen Palmer, this collection of 20 articles represents the multiplicity of issues raised by counselling in a multicultural society. It examines topics which affect all counsellors, including the dynamics of mixed and same race counselling relationships and the dilemmas which confront counsellors in how to address issues related to racism which are raised in counselling.





The book covers both theory and practice, outlining different approaches to multicultural and transcultural counselling, highlighting the racism implicit in some counselling theory and providing examples of multicultural counselling practice. The Reader also presents fresh perspectives on counselling from beyond the predominantly white, Western culture in which it evolved and discussion issues at the end of each chapter further encourage the reader to take a critical and questioning approach to the subject.





Multicultural Counselling brings to the fore the key issues involved in multicultural counselling and captures the full complexity of the subject. Essential reading for trainee and practising counsellors, psychotherapists, counselling psychologists and others involved in therapeutic relationships with clients, the book aims to raise cultural awareness and challenge assumptions.

Author Biography

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK′s first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner′s Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking. 

Table of Contents

PART ONE: COUNSELLING AND RACECounselling and Race - Colin Lago and Joyce ThompsonWorking with Issues of Race in Counselling - Aisha Dupont-JoshuaPART TWO: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLINGTranscultural Counselling and Psychotherapy - Zack EleftheriadouA Philosophical FrameworkMulticultural Issues in Eclectic and Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy - Colin Lago and Roy MoodleyCounselling Idiographically - Stephen PalmerThe Multimodal ApproachTranscultural Family Therapy - Zoubida GuerninaTherapy with Intercultural Couples - Joan L Biever, Monte Bobele and Mary-Wales NorthA Postmodern ApproachCounselling Black Employees Facing Racism and Discrimination - Nick BanksCrisis Counselling - Romeria TidwellCounselling Foreign Students - P L S Khoo, M H Abu-Rasain and G HornbyA Review of StrategiesBuddhism and Counselling - Padmil de SilvaGood Practice in Transcultural Counselling - Amanda Webb Johnson and Zenobia NadirshawAn Asian PerspectiveUnderstanding Mental Illness Across Culture - Pittu Laungani`I Say What I Like′ - Roy MoodleyFrank Talk(ing) in Counselling and PsychotherapyPART THREE: ETHNIC MATCHING IN COUNSELLINGEthnic Matching in Counselling - Waseem J AlladinHow Important Is It to Ethnically Match Clients and CounsellorsAn Analysis of the Facilitative Effects of Gender in Counselling Practice - Pat Ward and Nick BanksCross-Cultural/Racial Matching in Counselling and Therapy - Roy Moodley and Shukla DhingraWhite Clients and Black CounsellorsPART FOUR: RESEARCHInvestigating Biases in Trainee Counsellors′ Attitudes to Clients from Different Cultures - Anita PearceThe Experienced Influence of Effect of Cultural/Racism Issue on the Practice of Counselling Psychology - Petr[um]uska Clarkson and Yuko NippodaA Qualitative Study of One Multicultural Training OrganizationMulticultural Counselling Research - Peter JewelAn Evaluation with Proposals for Future Research

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′Raising cultural awareness and challenging assumptions, this book will be essential reading′ - Stress News

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'Raising cultural awareness and challenging assumptions, this book will be essential reading' - Stress News

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