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Can therapy involving a therapist and client from differing cultural, ethnic and racial origins work? What are the main barriers to this relationship working well? What knowledge, skill and attitudes are required by therapists to enhance their work with “different” clients? Therapists are inevitably affected by their own backgrounds, experiences and prejudices, which may manifest negatively within therapeutic relationships with clients of different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. This book strives to explore these areas of challenge to successful therapy and to raise awareness of the many facets that may impact upon the relationship. This substantially revised edition builds upon the foundations laid down in the first edition (which addressed, amongst other subjects, issues of race and power, cultures and their impact upon communication, and a review of the dominant theoretical discourses influencing counselling and psychotherapy and how these might impact upon mixed identity therapeutic relationships,) and includes the following additions: New chapters by black and white writers working within British, American and Canadian contexts Updated information on recent changes and challenges in the field New approaches to the issues of whiteness and power, multiple identities and identity development Race, Culture and Counselling provides key reading for students, therapists, supervisors and teachers of therapists as well as students and professionals in allied professions such as social work, nursing, medicine and teaching. Contributors: Courtland Lee; Roy Moodley; Gill Tuckwell; Val Watson

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Shaindl Diamond is a Ph.D. student in the Counselling Psychology Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). J. Roy Gillis is an assistant professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in the Department of Adult Education and Counselling Psychology Colin Lago was Director of the Counselling Service at the University of Sheffield from 1987 -- 2003. He now works as an independent counsellor, trainer, supervisor and consultant. Colin trained initially as an engineer and went on to become a full time youth worker in London and then a teacher in Jamaica. He is a Fellow of BACP, an accredited counsellor and trainer and UKRC registered practitioner. Deeply committed to ""transcultural concerns"" he has had articles, videos and books published on the subject. Professor Courtland Lee, College of Education, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services, University of Maryland, U.S.A. Dr. Roy Moodley, Ontario Institute of Education, University of Toronto, Canada. Gill Tuckwell, Independent Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer, Birmingham, U.K. Clemmont E. Vontress received the BA Degree from Kentucky State University in French and English in 1952 and the MS (1956) and the PhD (1965 in counseling from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. One of the best known authorities on cross-cultural counseling, he is also known for articles, chapters, and books on existential counseling and traditional healing. Dr. Val Watson, Department of Counselling Studies, University of Nottingham, U.K.

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