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The Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy is a comprehensive reference guide for group practitioners and researchers alike. Each chapter reviews the literature and current research as well as offers suggestions for practice in the psycho educational arena, counseling, and therapy groups. The handbook encourages the notion that the field is improved through increased collaboration between researchers and practitioners. Through a review of cutting-edge research and practice, the handbook includes: 48 chapters by renowned experts in group work The history and theory of group work Topics across the lifespan An entire section on multicultural issues A variety of clinical problems and settings Appendices include the Association for Specialists in Group Work Training Standards, Best Practice Standards, and Principles for Diversity-Competent Group Workers The Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy, the most comprehensive reference devoted to this rapidly growing field, is essential for graduate students, academics, researchers, professionals, and librarians serving the group therapy community.
An Afrocentric Approach to Counseling Groups with African Americans
An Afrocentric Approach to Counseling Groups with African Americans
I am because we are; and because we are, therefore I am.
Much of the multicultural counseling research has pointed out the need for counselors to become culturally competent to appropriately address the needs of a diverse community. Traditional psychology and psychotherapy have been based on theoretical and diagnostic standards established with a select group of client characteristics and have expanded their interventions in recent years to emphasize and utilize client diversity. Group approaches have been even slower to incorporate psychological, emotional, and spiritual factors of cultural groups, especially when related to group work from an African American perspective. While it is ...
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