Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations: Strategies for Practitioners

by Nicholas A. Vacc, Susan B. Devaney, Johnston M. Brendel

Book Overview

The purpose of this book is to expose students of the helping professions, counselors, teachers, college professors, mental health workers, and social workers to the unique characteristics of representative American subgroups and to effectively assist these same professionals as they work with clients and/or students from these populations. These are grouped by race, gender, sexuality, age, physical limitations and lifestyle etc. The author of each...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583913483
• ISBN13: 9781583913482
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent multicultural counseling resource

Very thorough, balanced viewpoints, useful chapter sections (especially the exercises at the end of each chapter), and empirically supported throughout. Also really like that each chapter is written by a different author, so you get a lot of different viewpoints and writing styles. Definitely recommend to anyone needing to teach a multicultural counseling course or strengthen their own multicultural counseling competencies.

A n effective approach to counseling diverse populations

This book is an excellent , current resource for counseling multicultural groups/individuals, in the truest sense of "multicultural". Every chapter is written by a member of the group being studied, so the perspective of the insider is real, not bookish or purely academic/research based. It is also a very quick and easy read, and as interesting as it is informative.