Culturally responsive cognitive-behavioral therapy: Assessment, practice, and supervision.

This engaging volume describes the application of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with people of diverse cultures and discusses how therapists can refine CBT to increase effectiveness. List of contributors foreword / Richard M. Suinn Acknowledgments Introduction : Developing culturally responsive cognitive-behavior therapies / Pamela A. Hays Cognitive-Behavior Therapy with American Indians / Justin Douglas McDonald & John Gonzales Cognitive-Behavior Therapy with Alaska Native people / Pamela A. Hays Cognitive-behavior therapy with Latinos and Latinas / Kurt C. Organista Cognitive-Behavior Therapy with African Americans / Shalonda Kelly Cognitive-behavior therapy with Asian Americans / Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Curtis Hsia, & Devon Hinton Cognitive-behavior therapy with people of Arab heritage / Nuha Abudabbeh & Pamela A. Hays Cognitive-behavior therapy with Orthodox Jews / Cheryl M. Paradis, Daniel Cukor, & Steven Friedman, II Cognitive-behavior therapy with culturally diverse older adults / Angela W. Lau & Lisa M. Kinoshita Cognitive-behavior therapy and people with disabilities / Linda R. Mona, Jennifer M. Romesser, Rebecca P. Cameron, & Veronica Cardenas Affirmative cognitive-behavior therapy with lesbian, gay, and bisexual people / Kimberly F. Balsam, Christopher R. Martell, & Steven Safren, III Cultural considerations in cognitive-behavioral assessment / Sumie Okazaki & Junko Tanaka-Matsumi Multicultural Cognitive-behavior therapy supervision / Gayle Y. Iwamasa, Shilpa M. Pai & Kristen H. Sorocco. "Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Assessment, Practice, and Supervision is the first book to integrate cultural influences into cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This engaging volume describes the application of CBT with people of diverse cultures and discusses how therapists can refine cognitive-behavioral therapy to increase its effectiveness. The contributing authors examine the characteristics of some of the most common cultural groups in the United States, including American Indian, Latino, Asian, and African American as well as groups less commonly considered in multicultural psychology books, such as people of Alaska Native, Arab, and Orthodox Jewish heritage. The volume also describes the use of CBT with older adults, people with disabilities, and gay and lesbian individuals, including examples of people who hold bicultural and multicultural identities. A chapter on culturally responsive assessment, with an emphasis on the most frequently used cognitive-behavioral scales and a chapter on supervision, round out this volume. Numerous case examples provide practical guidance for implementing this empirically supported theory, making this book an invaluable resource for every therapist"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved) Twenty-six academics and practitioners--all but one from the U.S.--contribute 12 chapters providing clinicians and counselors with practitioner-oriented suggestions, guidelines, and examples illustrating the use of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with people of diverse cultural identities. Following an introductory overview, individual chapters address the use of CBT with specific ethnic minority cultures--American Indians, Alaska Natives, Latinos and Latinas, African Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, Orthodox Jews; using CBT with people of additional minority cultures, including older adults, people with disabilities, and sexual minorities; and assessment, supervision, and training issues. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)