The authors apply two contemporary notions of culture to advance the conceptual basis of
cultural competence in psychotherapy: Kleinman's (1995) definition of culture as what is at …

The foregoing chapters present a panorama of psychological healing as it is practiced in a
variety of homogeneous cultural contexts and multicultural milieus. Some readers may feel …

When clients from diverse backgrounds seek professional mental health services, several
concerns may arise: Will this therapist respect my beliefs and values? Will this therapist …

Multicultural counseling takes place when a counselor and client are from differing cultural
groups. Because significant demographic changes are taking place in the United States …

After several decades of slow progress, researchers are beginning to make advances in
linking constructs based on the multicultural competencies tradition—especially those …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the limitations of the multicultural approach to
psychotherapy with diverse clients. When therapists approach clients as" ethnic entities" …

Some psychotherapists produce better outcomes than others (Crits-Christoph & Mintz, 1991;
Kraus, Castonguay, Boswell, Nordberg, & Hayes, 2011), although it has not been …

In the face of increasingly culturally diversity, clinicians are challenged to treat patients who
may not respond to traditional psychotherapeutic approaches. Cultural competence is …

Ethnic and racial differences between client and therapist affect therapy processes and
outcomes, but little is known about the extent to which therapists have dialogues about their …