Counseling Across Cultures - Hardcover

Pedersen, Paul B.; Draguns, Juris G.; Lonner, Walter J.; Trimble, Joseph E.

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9780761920854: Counseling Across Cultures

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ISBN 10: 0761920854 ISBN 13: 9780761920854

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2002

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Counseling Across Cultures, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive examination of the increasing priority of culture in the counseling process. The contributors examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling, highlighting work with groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, refugees, and international students. Chapters also consider culturally appropriate counseling methods as they relate to gender, aged populations, health psychology, and school settings.

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About the Author

Paul B. Pedersen is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Pedersen was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University, 1984-988 and the University of Pittsburgh “semester at sea” voyage around the world, spring 1992. International experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe, and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University 1999-2000. He has authored, co-authored or edited 40 books, 99 articles, and 72 chapters on aspects of multicultural counseling and international communication. Pedersen is a fellow in Divisions 9, 17, 45 and 52 of the American Psychological Association.

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'The editors have masterfully accomplished their goals of "articulating the positive contributions that can be made by incorporating multicultural awareness in the training of skilled counsellors". The Fourth Edition of Counseling across Cultures is an excellent source of information and remains a classic in its field' - Contemporary

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