While practitioners in the social services and mental health professions work with people
from a variety of ethnic, racial, social, and economic backgrounds, they often do not …

This chapter explores the concept of counseling across cultures and the development of the
competency needed to effectively address the mental health issues of clients from diverse …

While there are numerous resources for practitioners on the subject, the ambiguity remains
of what actually constitutes effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy and how it …

Culture controls our lives and defines reality for each of us, with or without our permission
and/or intentional awareness. A" culture-centered" approach to counseling recognizes …

At first, second, and perhaps third blush, the articles by Ho (1995 [this issue]), Smart and
Smart (1995 [this issue]), and Chambers, Lewis, and Kerezsi (1995 [this issue]) have very …

This [book] wrestles with the difficult treatment problems confronting both culturally and
socially oppressed clients and psychotherapists in a society where diversity has often been …

The cross‐cultural clinical encounter is fraught with anxieties, fears, biases, and
misunderstandings that are experienced by both members of the therapeutic dyad. Through …

Abstract review selected literature on background factors and techniques, especially with
children and adolescents [from ethnic minority groups], for the clues they provide for fulfilling …

Multicultural psychology and counseling is an emerging discipline with the potential to
inform therapists of cultural considerations relevant to mental health (Paniagua & Yamada …