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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
Crisis Counselling
Crisis Counselling
Crises occur as part of everyday life. Every individual experiences periods when problems and changes are beyond his or her capacity to cope. For a sizeable proportion of low socio-economic status (SES) individuals, minority group members, or those considered ‘out of the mainstream’, stress is virtually a constant (Chandler et al., 1985). Because impoverishment, personal and institutional racism, migration and lack of acculturation cause many to have to face a host of stressful life events, crises are highly prevalent in the lives of those considered the underclass (Krieger and Sidney, 1996; Lazarus, 1991; Williams et al., 1997). Consequently, those of economically deprived groups, members of minority groups, and members from foreign countries have a great need for psychological counselling and it is ...
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