Cross-cultural therapeutic relationships pose a challenge to practitioners trained in
traditional modes of counseling. Because of the increasing numbers of minority groups …

This study was conducted to explore the experiences of African American mental health
professionals who work clinically with African American clients. Specifically, the researchers …

The idea of a book chapter on counseling African Americans is inherent with fundamental
challenges. After all, African Americans as a social demographic group are quite diverse …

Black Caribbeans seeking mental health treatment in the United States may be mistakenly
identified as African American because of their shared skin tone and features. This racial …

Abstract The African American population nationally represents a community of
approximately 33.9 million people and 9 million families (US Bureau of the Census, 2001) …

Clients of African descent have not been well served by the mental health system. Previous
literature has demonstrated a history of bias, misdiagnosis, and cultural insensitivity that has …

Social workers recognize that they must be knowledgeable and competent cross-cultural
practitioners to be relevant and effective. While there is an extensive ideological, theoretical …

Multicultural professional psychologists routinely assert that psychotherapeutic interventions
require culturally competent delivery for ethnoracial minority clients to protect the distinctive …

A major focus of the helping professions has been to promote intrapsychic change in clients,
oen with an implicit goal of facilitating clients' adaptation to the social environment. While …

In a world that is forever fragmenting into divisions of ethnicity and class, this
groundbreaking book offers an approach to therapy that reaches across the boundaries that …