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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Multicultural Aspects of Counseling And Psychotherapy |
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Multicultural aspects of counseling and psychotherapy.
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Mental Health Services and Multicultural Populations; Clinical Psychology Training; Community Mental Health; Practitioner-Scholar, Community, and Counseling Psychology Training; Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs); Societal Transformation by Immigration, Outmarriage, and Segregation; Managed Care for Multicultural Populations; Prologue; Chapter 2 -- Why is it so Difficult to Provide Quality Care for Multicultural Populations?; Worldview and Identity; Acculturation; Racism as Bias |
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Ethnocentrism and EthnorelativismResearch Beliefs; Anglo American Standards; Underuse of Services; Chapter 3 -- Quality Care for Multicultural Populations; Becoming a Provider; Ethical Standards; Problems Requiring Competent Care; Multicultural Assessment Prerequisitites; Intervention Model; Training and Evaluation; Dimensions of Quality Care; Chapter 4 -- Identities of Clients and Providers; Clients as Cultural Beings; Anglo American Provider Worldview and Identity Development; Clients and Providers; Chapter 5 -- African Americans |
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Use of Services, Providers, and Mainstream or Culture-Specific ProgramsHealth and Illness Beliefs; Social Class; Racial Identity and Cultural Identity; Problems-in-Living, Stress and Oppression, Culture-General Disorders, and Culture-Bound Disorders; Interventions; Chapter 6 -- American Indians/Alaska Natives; Psychopathology, Culture-Bound Disorders, and Problems-in-Living; Culture-General Interventions; Combined Interventions; Culture-Specific Interventions; Traditional Healing Practices; A Model for Culturally Competent Intervention; Chapter 7 -- Asians and Asian Americans |
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Chinese and Chinese AmericansJapanese and Japanese Americans; Southeast Asians and Southeast Asian Americans; Chapter 8 -- Hispanic Americans/Latinos; Health/Illness Beliefs; Interventions in Selected Countries of Origin; Symptoms, Psychopathologies, Problems-in-Living, and Culture-Bound Disorders; Acculturation and Psychopathology; Culture-General Interventions; Combined Approaches; Culture-Specific Interventions and Healing Practices; Culture-Specific Service-Delivery Settings; Chapter 9 -- Epilogue; References; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
How can quality mental health care be provided for multicultural populations? This volume explores this question by focusing on mental health services in the United States for a variety of populations, including African Americans, Native Americans and Chinese Americans |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cross-cultural counseling -- United States
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Minorities -- Mental health services -- United States
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Psychiatry, Transcultural -- United States
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Cross-cultural counseling
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Minorities -- Mental health services
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Psychiatry, Transcultural
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452250366 |
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1452250367 |
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