This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations.
This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This...
The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture Shock examines an international shipboard educational program and seeks to identify specific insights resulting from informal extracurricular contact between students and host nationals in the context of culture shock experiences. Using the critical incident methodology, Pedersen analyzes students' responses to nearly 300 specific incidents which resulted in insights that apply to the students' own development, as well as the sociocultural...
The educational literature suggests that international contact contributes to a comprehensive educational experience. The Five Stages of Culture...
Trauma is now being recognized as a major mental health challenge, with clients from children to the elderly presenting symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, often with no awareness of the cause. Yet managed care--and the growing incidence of trauma patients, presenting increased demands on existing professionals--requires brief treatments whenever possible. This book explains how to apply brief, existing, generic treatments to help manage the traumatized and diminish or eliminate their traumatic symptoms.
These recommended brief treatments are guided by sound assessment...
Trauma is now being recognized as a major mental health challenge, with clients from children to the elderly presenting symptoms of Post-Traumatic ...
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.
This volume introduces innovative ways of understanding and dealing with issues of multiculturalism in counselling. The author emphasizes that underst...
This text presents the theoretical underpinnings of the Triad Training Model of counselling. Pedersen draws on research into the importance of internal dialogue and its incorporation into counselling education and training.'
This text presents the theoretical underpinnings of the Triad Training Model of counselling. Pedersen draws on research into the importance of interna...
The contributors of the book seek to separate what we know from what we do not know about the imporatnce of multiculturalism. Topics include cultural diversity, multiculturalism and psychotherapy, & cultures centered interventions.
The contributors of the book seek to separate what we know from what we do not know about the imporatnce of multiculturalism. Topics include cultural ...
In our present planetary crisis, communication across cultural lines has become vitally important. This volume on cross-cultural counseling is enormously valuable in contributing to that goal. It is broadly conceived, giving many individual perspectives on counseling with different ethnic groups; the methods available; the research which helps to clarify our understanding; and the status of education and training for cross-cultural work. It will help stretch the counselor's mind and heart. It will help to avoid the cultural encapsulation of the counselor. The editor and the many...
In our present planetary crisis, communication across cultural lines has become vitally important. This volume on cross-cultural counseling is enor...
