Culture-Centered Counseling and Interviewing Skills

by Pedersen, Paul B.; Ivey, Allen

• ISBN13: 9780275946685
• ISBN10: 0275946681
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-30
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I: CULTURE CENTEREDNESS	1	(82)
The Multicultural Three-Step	5	(24)
The Cultural Grid and Culture Systems	29	(24)
Four Synthetic Cultures	53	(30)
PART II: CULTURE-CENTERED SKILL DEVELOPMENT	83	(118)
Preparing to Learn Culture-Centered Skills	87	(16)
Basic Attending Skills	103	(14)
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Encouraging Skills	117	(14)
Question-Asking Skills	131	(18)
Reflecting Feeling and Reflecting Meaning	149	(18)
Confrontation and Mediation Skills	167	(16)
Focusing, Directing, and Interpreting Skills	183	(18)
References	201	(4)
Index	205