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Title: Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice
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| Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Wiley Challenging and necessary | I teach a masters level counseling psychology course. I require this book for my students. I don't require that they agree with it, but I require that they are open enough to reading it and having an intelligent discussion about issues of diversity in therapy. Many of my students will work with clients who are of a different ethnicity than themselves. Although understanding some of the cultural norms of differing populations is important, it is more important that my students are aware of the conscious and often unconscious biases that they as therapists carry into their sessions. It saddens me that so many seemingly good White people, have issues discussing race and their own privilege. Racism is one of the most contagious diseases on the planet, and unfortunately to some degree- we have all caught it. But if we simply deny it, we will never heal. And even if you feel you are the most enlightened of White people, your clients of color may still see you as White, which will add a very important dimension to the therapy.
I also have had the luxury of working in several large agencies where I hire and fire therapists. I always ask a question about diversity. I would never be able to hire many of the reviewers here. With their indignation when told they have privilege, and their 1950's attitudes about race and culture, they would lack the necessary competence to work with people of color. One day, ethical standards will change- and they will find it difficult to find a place in the therapeutic community to do any work at all. | | Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Wiley Eat the meat, leave the gristle | Previous critical reviews have detailed pretty much everything I found of this book (except the expectedly mindless "liberal" comments), so I'm just adding to the general consensus of this text as deeply flawed but useful. The revolutionary rhetoric Sue and Sue utilize is indeed dated and counterproductive; what may have been necessarily and productively inflammatory fifteen or twenty years ago now plays as tired and old. There is much to be said for smashing the cocoon of power and privilege, but critical thought long ago graduated to more comprehensive vistas than "whitey bad, everybody else good." My biggest beef with this text is that it's used in graduate courses when it should be applied at the introductory, first year undergraduate level where shock value has considerable weight. At the graduate level I expect far more comprehensive, subtle, and nuanced investigations of whatever subject I'm studying.
However, at the same time I read on this site more than a smidgeon of exactly the sort of calcified, racially privileged bleating which the authors try so clumsily to fracture, so obviously their task is hardly finished. I just hope they either a) pass the torch to a younger, more adept generation of cultural authors, or b) attend to the coherent criticisms of their work carefully, and take them to heart for the next edition. | | Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Wiley Counseling the Culturally Diverse- Text | | Fast shipping, excellent communication, book in great condition and acurate description of the item provided. Will do biz. with again. | | Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Wiley Cultural Diversity text by Sue & Sue | I, as well as some of my classmates, are less than pleased with the approach of this textbook. It is being used in a M.A. level psychology class, to discuss and become aware of cultural issues in therapy situations. Our complaint has come from the opinion that Sue and Sue lack a perspective from both sides. They will explain how an unaware therapist did not handle a session well due to his/her lack of cultural awareness, but then the other side of how the client's attitudes and actions also affected the outcome of the therapy is not considered and discussed. Sue and Sue offer a very skewed perspective that allows individual's from other cultures who have chosen to live in the U.S. to be the victim's of poor treatment, and yet; Sue and Sue does not show how the attitudes and actions of these cultures can also adversely impact the outcome of situations that they experience. Someone needs to write a textbook that adequately covers both sides of this cultural diversity issue! The dean of my department is unaware of such a text, otherwise, he said we would be using it.
| | Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Wiley Counseling the Culturally Diverse | | This book is a disappointment; it has a negative and depressive overtone. It makes assumptions, gives opinions as fact, and makes intellectual leaps. For example, p. 311 reads, "But, just as the history of the United States is the history of racism, it is also the history of antiracism as well." That sounds balanced at first read, but to equate the history of the US with the history of racism ignores what is happening all over the world. It ignores the six million jews that died under the Nazi regime; it ignores the Serb and Croat conflagration, the Hmong, the Khmer Rouge. It ignores what is happening in Kenya, Chad, Sudan, and Nigeria today, or Rwanda or the Congo just a few years back. It ignores the history between Japan and Korea, Ukraine and the Soviet Union, the Australians and the Maori, the Kurds and the Iraqi's. That type of oversimplification casues me to wonder what else is not being throughly addressed. | | Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Wiley Product Description | The leader in the field of multicultural counseling and therapy, upholding the highest standards of scholarship
"This edition adds the latest hot button issues in the multicultural world. The authors have skillfully and sensitively added the latest evidence-based knowledge of critical problems that can surface in counseling/therapy, including 'microaggressions,'interethnic relationships, Middle Eastern issues, and immigration/refugee complexities. Everything you ever wanted to know about multicultural counseling is included in this edition. It continues to be the standard for any mental health professional treating persons from racial/ethnic minority populations....It is authoritative, illuminating, and clinically compelling."
-Melba Vasquez, PhD, ABPP
Independent Practice, Austin, Texas
"This book is the one to read. It has invaluable information that is current, is extremely well written, and stands out from the other books in the field. The book touches the reader on multiple levels, bringing in personal stories, pushing one's thinking, and very clearly linking theory, history, policies, contemporary trends, and practice. Absolutely outstanding-don't miss it!"
-Fred Bemak, EdD, Professor and Director of the Diversity Research and Action Center Graduate School of Education, George Mason University
Completely updated, the most widely used and critically acclaimed text on multicultural counseling, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition offers students and professionals essential and thought-provoking material on the theory, research, and practice of multicultural counseling.
Authors Derald Wing Sue and David Sue-pioneers in this field-define and analyze the meaning of diversity and multiculturalism and include coverage of racial/ethnic minority groups as well as multiracial individuals, women, gays and lesbians, the elderly, and those with disabilities. The Fifth Edition of this classic resource introduces new research and concepts, discusses future directions in the field, and includes updated references.
New and important highlights include:
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Opening personal narratives in Chapter 1 that present poignant journeys in cultural competence
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Cutting-edge material related to the most recent research, theoretical formulations, and practice implications
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Discussion of unconscious and subtle manifestations of racial, gender, and sexual orientation bias and discriminationknown as microaggressions
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Coverage of social justice counseling
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Content on minority group therapists
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Attention to counseling and special circumstances involving racial/ethnic populations
With its unique conceptual framework for multicultural therapy, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Fifth Edition remains the best source of real-world counseling preparation for students as well as the most enlightened, influential guide for professionals. |
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