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This is a very helpful book for mental health professionals providing therapy, counselling and health and social care services, as it explores and integrates multicultural and spiritual perspectives in a practical and informative manner. It highlights the fact that spiritual dimension has an enormous relevance to multicultural counselling' - Transcultural Psychiatry This book challenges practitioners with the proposal that integrating spiritual values in multicultural counselling and exploring spirituality from multicultural perspectives are synergistic and mutually reciprocal processes. Chapter topics include: developmental models of the spiritual journey; integrating spiritual and mul
Introduction
Introduction
Every cultural crisis produces a corresponding spiritual crisis.
—Matthew Fox, On Becoming a Musical Mystical Bear (1976, p. xxviii)
Rationale and Purpose
With the approach of the 21st century and increasing global linkages through technology and interdependent economies, people's day-to-day lives are affected by interactions with others different from themselves. Examples of cross-cultural contact can be found in the streets of our cities, in the business world, and through technology, such as television and the Internet. The cultural diversity of the United States presents both challenges and resources for solving social problems. Concurrently, there is a resurgence of interest in spiritual fulfillment, as participation in fundamentalist churches and in new age activities increases (Hoge, 1996; Naisbett & Aburdene, 1990). Consequently, mental health professionals are asked to learn ...
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