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    Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice
    An Intersectional Approach

    Pamela A. Hays (Author)

    9781433835940

    Paperback / softback, published 18 January 2022

    371 pages
    25.4 x 17.8 x 2 cm, 0.672 kg

    The comprehensive and practical information in this excellent new fourth edition lights a path toward the lifelong development of cultural competence.
    - Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, Author of Multicultural Care: A Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competence
    Dr. Hays artfully weaves together critical insights that go beyond stereotyping to improve practitioner understanding of the complexity of diversity and intersectionality, how to make meaningful connections and strengthen the working alliance, and how to increase cultural responsiveness in both treatment and assessment.
    - Wei-Chin Hwang, PhD, Professor of Psychological Science, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, and independent practice
    Yet again, Dr. Pamela Hays has delivered excellence. This new edition gives mental health providers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide for providing inclusive clinical assessment and interventions to people who identify with diverse identities. Their voices and cultural contexts are highlighted through clinical examples in this book in addition to the most recent psychological research-making this an ideal resource for students, trainees, and early career professionals.
    - Linda R. Mona, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist, Long Beach, CA

    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.

    Acknowledgments
    Part I. Becoming a Culturally Responsive Therapist

    1. Diversity, Complexity, and Intersectionality
    2. Essential Knowledge and Qualities
    3. Your Cultural Self-Assessment
    Part II. Making Meaningful Connections
    1. That amp rsquo s Not What I Meant: Finding the Right Words
    2. Intersectionality: The Complexities of Identity
    3. Creating a Positive Therapeutic Alliance
    Part III. Sorting Things Out
    1. Conducting a Culturally Responsive Assessment
    2. Understanding Trauma
    3. Culturally Responsive Testing
    4. Making a Culturally Responsive Diagnosis
    Part IV. Beyond the Treatment Manuals
    1. Culturally Responsive Therapy: An Integrative Approach
    2. Culturally Adapted Tools and Techniques
    3. Indigenous, Creative, Mindfulness, and Social Justice Interventions
    4. Pulling It All Together: A Complex Case
    5. Conclusion
    References
    Index
    About the Author
     
     
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