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Race is a complex and sensitive subject which has a direct and significant bearing on counselling. The aim of Multicultural Counselling: A Reader is to provide insights and to provoke debate about the impact of race and ethnicity on counsellors, their clients and the therapeutic process. Edited by Stephen Palmer, this collection of 20 articles represents the multiplicity of issues raised by counselling in a multicultural society. It examines topics which affect all counsellors, including the dynamics of mixed and same race counselling relationships and the dilemmas which confront counsellors in how to address issues related to racism which are raised in counselling. The book covers both theory and p
Good Practice in Transcultural Counselling: An Asian Perspective
Good Practice in Transcultural Counselling: An Asian Perspective
European models of counselling are not devised to take account of ethnic minority experiences and culturally different life experiences. The models need to be changed when dealing with ethnic minorities.
Among a wide range of mental health professionals, there is growing concern about the way in which services are provided in Britain's multiracial and pluralistic society. Psychiatric services have failed to respond to the needs and secure the confidence of Britain's ethnic communities (Fernando, 1990; Littlewood and Lipsedge, 1982). What is more disturbing is that services are often discriminatory, culturally insensitive and inappropriate. Counselling and therapeutic practice have not escaped this. For example, it ...
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