Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice

An Intersectional Approach

Pamela A. Hays (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

371 Seiten

2022 | Fourth Edition
American Psychological Association (Verlag)
978-1-4338-3594-0 (ISBN)

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A nuanced exploration of identity interweaves cultural factors including age, disability, indigenous heritage, systemic oppression, and evolving gender perspectives. Engaging case studies, vignettes, and practical exercises equip clinicians to navigate diverse therapeutic challenges using the ADDRESSING framework.

Hays amp rsquo s popular bestseller invites readers to move beyond a one-dimensional view of identity to a nuanced understanding of the overlapping cultural influences that affect us all.

This fourth edition's new chapters feature culturally adapted cognitive behavioral tools and techniques, and trauma due to racism and other systemic forms of oppression. It remains richly illustrated with case material, with many new vignettes and examples demonstrating the ADDRESSING framework in both counseling and clinical practice. Other new material includes updated discussion of gender identity, with attention to clinically relevant research regarding transgender and nonbinary people, more on people with disabilities (the largest minority group in the U.S.), the latest terminology and language regarding diverse minority groups, and a special section on social justice and its relationship to therapeutic practice.

In an increasingly diverse society, mental health providers must be able to work effectively with a wide variety of clients. The ADDRESSING framework shows clinicians and counselors how to take into account age and generational influences, developmental or other disability, religion and spirituality, ethnic and racial identity, Indigenous heritage, national origin, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and gender. Each chapter includes Key Ideas summaries and practice exercises, making this book ideal for personal, educational, or group use.

Pamela A. Hays, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii and completed a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine. She was on the graduate psychology faculty of Antioch University in Seattle, Washington, for years, and in 2 , returned to her hometown on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, where she has worked in community mental health for the Kenaitze Tribe's Dena'ina Wellness Center, in private practice, and served on the Board of the Alaska State Psychological Association. Her research has included work with Tunisian women in North Africa and with Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian people in the U.S. She is the author of Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit and Creating Well-Being: Four Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life coeditor of the book Culturally Responsive Cognitive amp ndash Behavioral Therapy: Assessment, Practice, and Supervision and coauthor of the book and video series Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies. Dr. Hays's work with clients is featured in several APA-produced DVDs, and she provides consultation and teaches workshops internationally. For more information on Dr. Hays's clinical practice, publications, videos, and workshops, visit https://www.drpamelahays.com.

Acknowledgments
Part I. Becoming a Culturally Responsive Therapist

Diversity, Complexity, and Intersectionality
Essential Knowledge and Qualities
Your Cultural Self-Assessment

Part II. Making Meaningful Connections

That amp rsquo s Not What I Meant: Finding the Right Words
Intersectionality: The Complexities of Identity
Creating a Positive Therapeutic Alliance

Part III. Sorting Things Out

Conducting a Culturally Responsive Assessment
Understanding Trauma
Culturally Responsive Testing
Making a Culturally Responsive Diagnosis

Part IV. Beyond the Treatment Manuals

Culturally Responsive Therapy: An Integrative Approach
Culturally Adapted Tools and Techniques
Indigenous, Creative, Mindfulness, and Social Justice Interventions
Pulling It All Together: A Complex Case
Conclusion

References
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2022
Verlagsort	Washington DC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	1-4338-3594-0 / 1433835940
ISBN-13	978-1-4338-3594-0 / 9781433835940
Zustand	Neuware