Culture-Centered Counseling Interventions

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Culture-Centered Counseling Interventions

Paul B. Pedersen - Syracuse University (Emeritus); University of Hawaii (Visiting) , Maastricht School of Management

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Multi-Cultural Counseling

344 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This volume introduces innovative ways of understanding and dealing with issues of multiculturalism in counselling. The author emphasizes that understanding the culture of clients is indispensable to the practice of good counselling. He includes exercises and applications in each chapter, and intersperses thought-provoking `culture notes' throughout.

Introduction

PART ONE: THE CULTURE-CENTERED CONTEXT

Defining Culture in Context

Managing Culturally Learned Assumptions

Managing the Cultural Context

PART TWO: SPECIFIC CULTURE-CENTERED CONTEXTS

Asian and Non-Western Contexts

Religious and Spiritual Contexts

International Student Contexts

Family Therapy in a Systemic Context

PART THREE: CULTURE-CENTERED SKILLS

Culture-Centered Counseling Skills

Finding Common Ground Using the Cultural Grid

Culture-Centered Ethics

Culture-Centered Controversies

Conclusion

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Paul B. Pedersen

Paul B. Pedersen is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Pedersen was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University, 1984-988 and the University of Pittsburgh “semester at sea” voyage around the world, spring 1992. International experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe, and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan... More About Author