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Voices of Color: First Person Accounts of Ethnic Minority Therapists is the first book to address the training, academic, and professional experiences of ethnic minority therapists. Using real cases, narratives, and biographical material, each chapter motivates the reader to ponder and challenge how issues related to mental health intersect with race/ethnicity within a broader diversity framework. The contributors represent various mental health disciplines, and they all write from a systemic perspective on therapy cases, theory, new models, and research. The authors present powerful narratives of how their personal and professional experiences inform each other.
International Academic Sojourners in the United States of America*: Color in the Ivory Tower
International Academic Sojourners in the United States of America*: Color in the Ivory Tower
Going outside of one's culture of origin requires a flexibility of thought and spirit and often results in a whole new perspective on life and self. In 1998, over 60,000 (or 5.6%) of the faculty teaching in the United States at postsecondary institutions had international or noncitizen status (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001). These persons include permanent residents (i.e., “green card holders”), nonresident aliens, and other visiting scholars. The statistics cited above do not include the vast numbers of faculty who were born, raised, and educated elsewhere but have now become naturalized citizens. International faculty ...
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