Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations

Edited by Nicholas A. Vacc, Joe Wittmer, Susan B. DeVaney

Book Description

In order to be effective as helping professionals, practitioners must understand individuals within their families, subgroups, and societies. Effective helpers reduce the social, economic, and emotional barriers encountered by American subgroups and consider culture to be broadly comprised, containing elements of religion, gender, sexuality, lifestyle, ethnicity, and historical context. Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations: Strategies for Practitioners, now in its fourth edition, presents an overview of 13 populations representative of the distinct and divergent subgroups in American society. Utilizing current research and personal experiences, 20 authors convey the needs, experiences, and characteristics of populations commonly encountered by counselors as well as those commonly discriminated against and misunderstood. New chapters focus specifically on Arab Americans, multiracial persons, incarcerated individuals, those in the sexual minority, and, more broadly, on men and women's issues. This text provides a resource through which practitioners can expand their knowledge and awareness of the values and conduct of diverse populations and of themselves. By encouraging self-exploration and guided reflection, this book assists students to improve their ability to understand and counsel people from many subcultures and population groups.

Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations