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March, 2016 | SAGE Publications, Inc

The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Multiple Identities in Counseling

Fifth Edition
Tracy L. Robinson-Wood - Northeastern University, USA
496 pages | March, 2016 | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Students, beginning and seasoned mental health professionals will be better prepared for diversity practice by this accessible, timely, provocative, and critical work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, Fifth Edition.  Author Tracy Robinson-Wood demonstrates, through both the time honored tradition of storytelling and clinically-focused case studies, the process of patient and therapist transformation.  This insightful, practical resource offers behavioral health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability.  With a keen focus on quality patient care, this important text aims to help professionals better serve patients across sources of diversity.  Readers will recognize their roles and responsibilities as social justice agents of change, while identifying the ways in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate clients’ feelings of stuckness and inadequacy, in both the therapeutic alliance and within the larger society. This remarkable text reveres the lifelong commitment of using knowledge and skills as power for good to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

Part I: The Mental Health Professional and Diversity

The Mental Health Profession

Multicultural Competencies
Competency Guidelines, Benchmarks, and Standards
Diversity Training
Assessment and Research
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Multicultural Counseling and Psychology Defined
Diversity: An Overview
A B C Dimensions
Conceptualization of the Self
Images of Diversity
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Identities as Status: The Contextual and Social Construction of Differences Model
Assumptions of Hierarchical Socialization Patterns
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study
Part II: Our People

History
Geography and Demography
Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues
Acculturation
Cultural Philosophies and Values
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

The Spanish, Portuguese, Indians, Asians, and Africans
Migratory Patterns from Mexico
Demography
Geography
Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues
Migration and Acculturation
Cultural Orientation and Values
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

History, 500-1500 AD
The Slave Trade
Resistance to Slavery
Demographic Trends
Social, Psychological, and Physiological Health Issues
Cultural Orientation and Values
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

History
Demography
Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues
Acculturation and Experiences in America
Cultural Orientation and Values
Asian American Identity Development
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

The Africans, Asians, Europeans, and Arabs
Muslims and Arabs: Differences and Similarities
Migratory Patterns from the Middle East
Demography
U.S. Census Bureau Classification as White
Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues
Cultural Orientation and Values
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

History and Immigration
Geography and Demography
Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues
The Meaning of Whiteness
White Racial Identity Development
White Privilege and Colorblindness
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

History of Migragration and Accultration
Defining Judaism
The Meaning of Being Jewsih
Shoah (The Holocaust)
Demography
Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues
Cultural Orientation and Values
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study
Part III: Converging Identities

The Social Construction of Race
Race and Science
Origins of Racial Groups
On Race, Ethnicity, and Difference
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Definitions
Demography
The One-Drop Rule
The Fluidity of Race
Racial Socialization
Multiracial and Biracial Identity Development
Research and Biracial and Multiracial Populations
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Gender Definitions
Gender and Biology
The Social Construction of Gender
Undoing Gender
Sex and Gender Roles
Gender and Emotion
Gender and the Body
Gender and Experiences in Therapy
Gender Identity Models
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Definitions and Terminology
Narrative Questions
The Importance of a Focus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Mental Health Diversity
Developmental Processes
Counseling LGBT Populations of Color
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

The Invisibility of Class as a Variable in Counseling
The Intersection of Class
Class: An Identity Construct
Middle-Class Bias and Counselor Training
The Fluidity of Class
Middle-Class Bias and Ethical Standards
Classism
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Understanding Disability
Disabilities and Children in Schools
Adults and Disabilities
Veterans
Disability Studies
The Social Construction of Disability
Alzheimers
Perfection, Beauty, and the Able Body
Implications for Counselors and Psychologists
Case Study

Spirituality and Religion Defined
Spirituality, Therapy, and Cultural Considerations
Diverse Healing Strategies
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

Social Justice and Empowerment
Power and Powerlessness
Social Justice and the Therapeutic Process
Feminist Therapy and Social Justice
Patient Navigation: Social Justice Example
Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Case Study

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NEW TO THIS EDITION:

  • Four new chapters focus on: 1) the Counselor, 2) people of Jewish descent, 3) people of European descent, and 4) social justice. Throughout, there is greater attention to a discussion of whiteness
  • New data on genetic markers is provided along with connections to the origin of human beings
  • Information from counseling psychology on counseling competency benchmarks are included across several chapters
  • New text boxes add visual interest and clarify material in the form of knowledge boxes, self-check boxes, and definition boxes
  • Recent events, such as the APA's involvement with enhanced interrogation and the Hoffman report, the confederate flag in South Carolina, and legalization of same-sex marriage in all 50 states are discussed
  • More attention to events within the counseling and psychology professions such as which mental health professionals can receive reimbursement from Medicare, which states have initial levels of licensure for professional counselors, and in which states psychologists have prescriptive authority
  • Expanded focus on veterans and Alzheimer’s included in the chapter on disability
  • A greater focus on millennials in this edition
  • Updated definitions regarding gender and sexuality
  • Updated census data are provided

KEY FEATURES:

  • Readers get an authentic snapshot of multicultural counseling as it happens. Integration and application of the material is accomplished through a realistic case study in each chapter that emphasizes a variety of counseling skills.
  • The diversity across world cultures come alive in the Storytelling feature that appears in each chapter, honoring the powerful oral tradition of storytelling.
  • Readers see how the ideas explored can help clinicians improve their cultural competence and strengthen the therapeutic alliance. Individual chapters cover people from various backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities, including people with disabilities; transgendered clients; people with substance use, and people across the developmental pipeline.
  • Attention is given to therapists who do and do not exhibit cultural competence; the positive and adverse impact on patients is explored.