The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling - Softcover

Robinson-Wood, Tracy Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150630575X ISBN 13: 9781506305752

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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From the Back Cover:

This book is refreshing, interesting, funny, sobering, and honest. It is different, inviting, provocative, fascinating, and rich—you can not find a more relevant and insightful work on multicultural counseling. Incorporates Story Bars and Case Studies into each chapter. Devotes an entire chapter to sexual orientation. Examines the impact of class on personal and social identity. Explores how race, gender, and culture play a role in counseling for client and counselor. For Counselors, Social Workers and Social Service Workers, Psychologists, and Corporate Trainers.

About the Author:

Tracy Robinson-Wood is a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University. She is author of The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling. The fifth edition, to be published by SAGE, is anticipated in 2016. Her research interests focus on the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in psychosocial identity development. She has developed the Resistance Modality Inventory (RMI), a psychometrically valid measure of psychological resistance based upon a theory of resistance she co-developed for black girls and women to optimally push back against racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of oppression. Her research is also focused on parents′ racial socialization messages within interracial families, and the relational, psychological, and physiological impact of microaggressions on highly educated racial, gender, and sexual minorities. Prior to Northeastern University, Dr. Robinson-Wood was a professor in the Department of Counselor Education at North Carolina State University. A California native, Dr. Robinson-Wood earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Communication from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. Her graduate degrees are in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She and her husband are proud parents of twin daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 150630575X
• ISBN 13: 9781506305752
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 496