Cbmcs Multicultural Reader

by Glenn C. Gamst

• ISBN13: 9781412959469
• ISBN10: 1412959462
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-19
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

Features a wellspring of seminal research studies critical to understanding the complex issues surrounding mental health care and diversity. Providing a wealth of in-depth research into delivering culturally competent care, this rich anthology examines general issues in multicultural counseling competence training; ethnic minority intervention and treatment research; and sociocultural diversities. Key Features and Benefits Features carefully selected research articles that are accessible to and practical for mental health practitioners and students Provides critical background research that sprang from rigorous research methods and multivariate statistical processes Opens with the key article that details the development of the ground-breaking 21-item California Brief Multicultural Competence Scale

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Multicultural Knowledge	p. 1
Cultural Competency Revised: The California Brief Multicultural Competence Scale	p. 3
Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity: A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General	p. 29
Client Diversity	p. 47
TEMAS (Tell-Me-A-Story) Assessment in Multicultural Societies	p. 59
Multicultural Counseling Training: Past, Present, and Future Directions	p. 77
The American Psychological Association's Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Psychology: Initial Development and Summary	p. 91
Strategies and Techniques for Counselor Training Based on the Multicultural Counseling Competencies	p. 101
Acculturation: A Psychological Construct of Continuing Relevance for Chicana/o Psychology	p. 111
Awareness of Cultural Barriers	p. 131
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies	p. 133
Social and Psychological Perspectives on Ethnic and Racial Identity	p. 143
Treatment Issues With Hispanic Clients	p. 181
Clinical Practices With African Americans: Juxtaposition of Standard Clinical Practices and Africentricism	p. 199
Native Americans	p. 217
Counseling and Psychotherapy With Asian American Clients	p. 241
Sensitivity and Responsiveness to Consumers	p. 265
The Verbal Code: Human Language	p. 267
Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Implications for Clinical Practice	p. 293
A Recovery Oriented Service System: Setting Some System Level Standards	p. 317
Counseling Individuals From Marginalized and Underserved Groups	p. 331
Assessments of Prejudice, Cultural Competence, Stressful Effects of Racism, Racial and Ethnic Identity, and the Multicultural Personality	p. 349
Client Culture Trainings/Focus Groups Project Report	p. 367
Sociocultural Diversities	p. 387
Counseling Older Adults: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Prevention and Intervention	p. 389
Ethnicity and Care	p. 427
Why Multicultural Issues Matter for Practitioners Working With Older Adults	p. 441
Revisiting Gender Issues in Multicultural Counseling	p. 453
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People of Color: Understanding Cultural Complexity and Managing Multiple Oppressions	p. 475
Psychology, Diversity, and Social Justice: Beyond Heterosexism and Across the Cultural Divide	p. 495
Psychotherapy, Classism, and the Poor: Conspicuous by Their Absence	p. 505
Working for Social Justice From With in the Health Care System: The Role of Social Class in Psychology	p. 521
Culture and the Disability Services	p. 539
Index	p. 555
About the Editors	p. 571
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