Chapter authors explore risk and protective factors at four levels. Macrosocial: political/legal, urbanization/migration, health care systems, and the media. Exosystemic: healing traditions, religion/spirituality, social support, education, gender, subgroups, discrimination. Mic…
Determinants of Minority Mental Health and Wellness Edited by Sana Loue and Martha Sajatovic Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Among members of minority groups, the experience and stigma of mental illness vary widely; the same holds true for coping, adjustment, and resi…
This text is unique in that it is the first book to recognize that true multicultural 'competence' in counseling or therapy must start with a deep understanding and acknowledgement that other people's worldview is as legitimate to them as yours is to you.€ Until€you recognize th…
This is the first book to explore the experiences of people of color in counseling from the perspective of individuals who are practicing counselors and were previously clients in counseling themselves. Marbley conducted a research study in which she interviewed eight individual…
How can race and ethnicity be understood as questions of power? How do changes among racial and ethnic groups alter conflicts about these groups identities and the resultant power structure shaped by these conflicts? The contributors to this important new volume take up these qu…
A practical approach for professionals working with people suffering from dementias, this book focuses on dementias, including Alzheimer's disease, from a multi-cultural perspective.
A practical approach for professionals working with people suffering from dementias, this book focuses on dementias, including Alzheimer's disease, from a multi-cultural perspective.
"Why is it so difficult to provide quality mental health care for multicultural populations? How can quality care be achieved? Understanding Cultural Identity in Intervention and Assessment centers on this dilemma. This text for multicultural courses in counseling, psychotherapy…
"This book proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct and reverse the course of the past and catalyze the stalled efforts of the present. It will do so by focusing on those specific aspects …
"Subject Areas/Keywords: multiculturalism, people of color, families of color, cultural diversity, racial minority, ethnic minority, religious minority groups, underserved communities, families, psychotherapy, family systems therapy, immigrants, marital therapy, couples therapy,…
"A leading text for courses that go beyond the basics of family systems theory, intervention techniques, and diversity, this influential work has now been significantly revised with 65% new material. The volume explores how family relationships—and therapy itself—are profoundly …