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Lago, Colin. Race, Culture and Counselling: The Ongoing Challenge, 2nd edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2005.

Race, Culture and Counselling: The Ongoing Challenge, 2nd edition

Authors: Colin Lago

Published:  November 2005 Pages: 304

eISBN: 9780335226078 | ISBN: 9780335216949
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  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Dedications
  • List of tables and figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the authors of the first edition
  • Authorship of the second edition
  • Notes on contributors
  • Foreword to the first edition
  • Introduction to the first edition
  • About the book
  • Introduction to the second edition
  • Chapter 01 The climate, the context and the challenge
  • The climate: the multicultural and multiracial nature of society today
  • The context: the acceptance of therapy and the challenge of diversity
  • The challenge
  • Chapter 02 Issues of race and power
  • Introduction
  • The profound effects of history on the rise of racism
  • Towards a structural awareness: racism, power and powerlessness (definitions and practices)
  • An exercise to explore how racism works in the organization
  • Exploring personal attitudes
  • Assessment of prejudice
  • The dynamics of the white counsellor–black client counselling partnership
  • Chapter 03 Towards understanding culture
  • Culture: a complex word and concept
  • Culture: some further thoughts and working definitions
  • Responding to the inner or the outer?
  • Culture and the individual
  • Cultural understanding: the demands on the counsellor
  • Chapter 04 Cultural barriers to communication
  • Introduction
  • A training exercise
  • Culture: the work of E. T. Hall
  • The iceberg conception of culture
  • The work of Geert Hofstede
  • Summing up
  • Chapter 05 Communication, language, gesture and interpretation
  • Introduction
  • Language, thought and experience
  • Language, emotion and meaning
  • The limits of language
  • Language and power
  • Linguistic differences, interpreters and translation
  • Paralinguistics
  • Non-verbal communication
  • ‘Syncing'
  • Chapter 06 Western theories of counselling and psychotherapy: intentions and limitations
  • Introduction
  • The historic and cultural origins of counselling and psychotherapy
  • Altered states of consciousness and hypnosis
  • Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis
  • Behaviourism and the development of cognitive-behavioural therapy
  • Humanistic psychology
  • An overview and critique emanating from the above models of therapy
  • Further frequent assumptions of cultural bias in counselling
  • Suggested principles and steps for counsellors towards ‘multicultural competency'
  • Brief reflections on and of ‘western' therapists
  • Chapter 07 Non-western approaches to helping
  • Introduction
  • Philosophic assumptions underlying world views
  • An overview of various treatment methods
  • A study from anthropology
  • Sufism
  • The healing processes of the !Kung hunter-gatherers
  • Therapeutic use of altered states of consciousness in contemporary North American First Nations' dance ceremonials
  • Mediums in Brazil
  • Spiritual influences on healing amongst Afro-Caribbean groups
  • Chinese psychiatry
  • Summing up
  • Chapter 08 Training therapists to work with different and diverse clients
  • Introduction
  • Students and trainees: selection and motivation
  • The training task: empowerment and enablement
  • Multicultural counselling competencies
  • Beliefs, attitudes and awareness
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Skills for organizational and development work
  • The use of interactive film material in training
  • Training materials in DVD format
  • The training task: where, how and with what?
  • Summing up
  • Appendix to Chapter 8: a brief list of training resources
  • Chapter 09 Addressing the cultural context of the counselling organization
  • Introduction
  • Location of counselling agency
  • Publicity, literature and culturally sensitive accessibility
  • Contact, information and communication
  • Internal decor and style
  • People matters
  • Concluding thoughts
  • Chapter 10 Supervision and consultancy: supporting the needs of therapists in multicultural and multiracial settings
  • Introduction
  • What is supervision?
  • The triangular supervisory relationship – extending the concepts
  • The demands on supervisors, professionally and educationally
  • Suggestions and guidelines for supervisory practice
  • Chapter 11 The challenge of research
  • Challenge and complexity
  • Hypotheses for research
  • Racial and ethnic identity development
  • Research, clinical effectiveness and training
  • Summing up
  • Chapter 12 Updating the models of identity development
  • Cultural identity defined
  • The multidimensional nature of culture
  • Developmental models of cultural identity
  • Implications of cultural identity development for counselling across cultures
  • Cultural identity and counsellor self-awareness
  • Cultural identity as a vehicle for understanding clients
  • CASE STUDY
  • Conclusions
  • Chapter 13 Key issues for black counselling practitioners in the UK, with particular reference to their experiences in professional training
  • Counselling training and practice contexts
  • Fear in the training room
  • The black counsellor's experience of training and practice – some research findings
  • Addressing ‘race' and culture in training
  • Visiting black trainers
  • Challenges facing black counsellors in their work
  • The future of counsellor training
  • Chapter 14 Upon being a white therapist: have you noticed?
  • Introduction
  • Why should we examine whiteness?
  • So what is it to be white?
  • Whiteness, ideology and contradictions
  • A postscript – dangers and challenges
  • Chapter 15 Specific issues for white counsellors
  • Understanding the social context
  • Developing white racial awareness
  • Working with racial issues in counselling
  • Chapter 16 Approaching multiple diversity: addressing the intersections of class, gender, sexual orientation and different abilities
  • Introduction
  • Identity development models – values and critiques
  • The challenge of addressing multiple diversity
  • Poststructural analysis
  • Notes
  • Chapter 17 Race and culture in counselling research
  • Critique on cross-cultural counselling research
  • Methodology problems
  • The ‘difficult' areas in cross-cultural research
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix : Definitions
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover