Multicultural counselling : a reader

`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. Counselling and race / Colin Lago and Joyce Thompson -- Working with issues of race in counselling / Aisha Dupont-Joshua -- Transcultural counselling and psychotherapy / Zack Eleftheriadou -- Multicultural issues in eclectic and integrative counselling and psychotherapy / Colin Lago and Roy Moodley -- Counselling idiographically / Stephen Palmer -- Transcultural family therapy / Zoubida Guernina -- Therapy with intercultural couples / Joan L. Biever, Monte Bobele, and Mary-Wales North -- Counselling Black employees facing racism and discrimination / Nick Banks -- Crisis counselling / Romeria Tidwell -- Counselling foreign students / P.L.S. Khoo, M.H. Abu-Rasain, and G. Hornby -- Buddhism and counselling / Padmal de Silva -- Good practice in transcultural counselling : an Asian perspective / Amanda Webb Johnson and Zenobia Nadirshaw -- Understanding mental illness across cultures / Pittu Laungani -- "I say what I like" : frank talk(ing) in counselling and psychotherapy / Roy Moodley -- Ethnic matching in counselling / Waseem J. Alladin -- An analysis of the facilitative effects of gender and race in counselling practice / Pat Ward and Nick Banks -- Cross-cultural/racial matching in counselling and therapy : white clients and Black counsellors / Roy Moodley and Shukla Dhingra -- Investigating biases in trainee counsellors' attitudes to clients from different cultures / Anita Pearce -- The experienced influence or effect of cultural/racism issues on the practice of counselling psychology / Petrūska Clarkson and Yuko Nippoda -- Multicultural counselling research / Peter Jewel. Race is a complex and sensitive subject which has a direct and significant bearing on counselling. The aim of Multicultural Counselling: A Reader is to provide insights and to provoke 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 co