Multicultural Encounters: Case Narratives from A Counseling Practice

Edited by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Book Description

This volume uses fascinating therapeutic encounters to help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of their increasingly diverse clientele. Emphasizing the importance of balancing general cultural awareness with a consciousness of openness and curiosity, Murphy-Shigematsu urges clinicians to look beyond their assumptions and stereotypes to learn their clients’ cultures through eliciting key narratives. Keeping the client and therapist center stage, the author shows the complex ways in which their cultural self-narratives interact.

Biography

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu was born to a Japanese mother and an Irish American father in occupied Japan. He received a doctorate from Harvard University and trained at the National Asian American Psychology Training Center in San Francisco and the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology in Boston. He was a Fulbright scholar and fellow of the American Psychology Association Minority Fellowship Program. A professor of psychology and ethnic studies at Tokyo University, he is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Multicultural Encounters: Case Narratives from A Counseling Practice