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`The book aptly describes, explores and hits the core of very complex issues around race, racism, culture, difference, dual identity, stereotypes, immigration and alienation... It is also very thought-provoking, raising questions about one's own ability to work more flexibly in the consulting room with clients of different backgrounds... It is excellent for a directory of resources, useful for training purposes and an enabling "role model" for good practice in counselling in a multicultural society. I enjoyed it... It should be a required handbook on the shelf of every caring professional working within a multicultural environment or setting' - Transformations, The PCSR Journal This book examines the many comp
Client Centred or Culture Centred Counselling?
Client Centred or Culture Centred Counselling?
To answer the question which forms the title of this chapter, we shall frst examine the nature and process of client centred counselling. We shall then tum to culture centred counselling. In so doing we shall be able to distinguish between the two approaches. We will then, hopefully, be in a position to offer tentative answers to a question that is of serious concern to counsellors – and indeed to the client groups of different ethnic origins who live in the UK and in other Western countries. The question when phrased carefully is this: in offering counselling and/or therapeutic services to members of ethnic minorities (for example, persons of Indian ancestry), which of the ...
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