Race, Culture and Counselling

Dedications
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Foreword to the first edition
Introduction to the first edition
Introduction
The climate, the context and the challenge
Issues of race and power
Towards understanding culture
Cultural barriers to communication
Communication, language, gesture and interpretation
Western theories of counselling and psychotherapy: intentions and limitations
Non-Western approaches to helping
Training therapists to work with different and diverse clients
Addressing the context of the counselling organization
Supervision and consultancy: supporting the needs of therapists in multicultural and multiracial settings
The challenge of research
Updating the models of identity development
Key issues for black counselling practitioners in the U.K. with particular reference to their experiences in professional training
Upon being a white therapist: have you noticed?
Specific issues for white counsellors
Approaching multiple diversity: addressing the intersections of class, gender, sexual orientation and different abilities
Race and culture in counselling research

References
Index

• 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