| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 179 pages) : illustrations |
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The Myth of Race -- The Spread of the Race Meme -- How Anthropology Can Help Psychology -- Divided Loyalties and the Responsibility of Social Scientists -- The Conservative-Liberal Alliance against Freedom -- Sociocultural Theory and Therapy -- Common Elements in Therapy and Healing across Cultures -- Discontinuous Change -- Does Problem Behavior Just Happen? -- Prevention, Solution Focused Therapy, and the Illusion of Mental Disorders -- Strategic Thoughts about Solution-Focused Therapy -- A Cross-Cultural View of Solution Focused Therapy |
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Note continued: Industrialization and Globalization -- Social Structure, Economics, and Power -- Cultural Factors -- Interactional Perspective -- Expectancy and Placebo -- Learning and Cognition -- 8. Discontinuous Change -- 9. Does Problem Behavior Just Happen? -- Overdelermination, Current Maintenance, or Natural Occurrence? -- Psychoanalysis -- Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies -- Systems Movement -- Solution-Focused Therapy -- How Useful Is the Search for Causes? -- Is Causation a Cultural Construction? -- How Might Therapists Change? -- 10. Prevention, Solution-Focused Therapy, and the Illusion of Mental Disorders -- 11. Strategic Thoughts About Solution-Focused Therapy -- 12. Cross-Cultural View of Solution-Focused Therapy -- Historical Background -- Theoretical Concepts -- Solutions -- Exceptions -- Cooperation and the Therapeutic Relationship -- Systems -- Relevant Principles of Psychology -- Clinical Techniques -- Pretend/Do a Little Bit of the Miracle -- Observe What Is Happening When -- Formula First Session Task -- Scaling Questions -- Case Example -- Cross-Cultural Perspective |
| Summary |
Is our society color-blind? Trans-racial? Post-racial? And what--if anything--should this mean to professionals in clinical practice with diverse clients? The ambitious volume The Concept of Race and Psychotherapy probes these questions, compelling readers to look differently at their clients (and themselves), and offering a practical framework for more effective therapy. By tracing the racial ""folk taxonomies"" of eight cultures in the Americas and the Caribbean, the author elegantly defines race as a fluid construct, dependent on local social, political, and historical context for meaning b |
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psychologie |
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psychology |
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psychotherapie |
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psychotherapy |
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Psychology (General) |
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Psychologie (algemeen) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Psychotherapy -- Social aspects.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Cultural Diversity
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Psychotherapy -- methods
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Ethnopsychology
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ethnopsychology.
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MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
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MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
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Cultural psychiatry
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Cultural pluralism
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Ethnopsychology
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Psychiatry, Transcultural
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Psychotherapy -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441975768 |
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1441975764 |
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1299337260 |
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9781299337268 |
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