Multicultural counselling : a reader

300 Pages·2002·15.728 MB·English

by  Palmer, Stephen

Multicultural Counselling

Multicultural Counselling
A R e a d er
edited by
Stephen Palmer
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and Chapter 5 © Stephen Palmer, 2002
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Dedication
I dedicate this book to Dr Pittu Laungani who has supported my work,
been a loyal colleague and friend for over a decade. He has helped me to
gain different perspectives on a range of issues. Although his views can
cause some controversy, I have enjoyed listening to them.
Memories are odd, in particular the ones that stick in our minds regard-
ing relationships and friendship. I first remember meeting Pittu when I
was chairing a public health conference held at the Royal Society of
Medicine. As one of the speakers could not attend, to avoid letting the
delegates down I decided to take the opportunity to give a paper on how
health professionals are largely responsible for creating their own levels
of stress - a tough topic to speak on from a cognitive perspective. Pittu
helped out by chairing the conference while I was speaking. We were no
longer strangers. Later that day, his paper comparing the differences in
stress between England and India etched a permenant impression on my
mind. I became interested in his work. We continued to meet up at differ-
ent conferences. Then in the mid-1990s, I enrolled on a PhD programme
at South Bank University and Pittu was of great assistance as my advisor.
Thank you Pittu for your ongoing support, friendship and the
great parties.

Contents
Editor ix
Contributors χ
Acknowledgements xiv
Preface xvi
PART ONE: COUNSELLING AND RACE 1
1 Counselling and Race 3
Colin Lago and Joyce Thompson
2 Working with Issues of Race in Counselling 21
Aisha Dupont-Joshua
PART TWO: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING 27
3 Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy:
A Philosophical Framework 31
Zack Eleftheriadou
4 Multicultural Issues in Eclectic and Integrative
Counselling and Psychotherapy 40
Colin Lago and Roy Moodley
5 Counselling Idiographically: The Multimodal Approach 57
Stephen Palmer
6 Transcultural Family Therapy 67
Zoubida Guernina
7 Therapy with Intercultural Couples:
A Postmodern Approach 73
Joan L. Biever, Monte Bobele and Mary-Wales North
8 Counselling Black Employees Facing Racism
and Discrimination 82
Nick Banks
9 Crisis Counselling 92
Romeria Tidwell
10 Counselling Foreign Students: A Review of Strategies 98
P.L.S. Khoo, M.H. Abu-Rasain and G. Hornby
viii Contents
11 Buddhism and Counselling 114
Padmal de Silva
12 Good Practice in Transcultural Counselling:
An Asian Perspective 119
Amanda Webb Johnson and Zenobia Nadirshaw
13 Understanding Mental Illness across Cultures 129
Pittu Laungani
14 Ί Say What I Like': Frank Talk(ing) in Counselling
and Psychotherapy 157
Roy Moodley
PART THREE: ETHNIC MATCHING IN COUNSELLING 173
15 Ethnic Matching in Counselling: How Important
is it to Ethnically Match Clients and Counsellors 175
Waseem J. Alladin
16 An Analysis of the Facultative Effects
of Gender and Race in Counselling Practice 181
Pat Ward and Nick Banks
17 Cross-cultural /Racial Matching in Counselling
and Therapy: White Clients and Black Counsellors 191
Roy Moodley and Shukla Dhingra
PART FOUR: RESEARCH 201
18 Investigating Biases in Trainee Counsellors' Attitudes
to Clients from Different Cultures 203
Anita Pearce
19 The Experienced Influence or Effect of Cultural/Racism
Issues on the Practice of Counselling Psychology:
A Qualitative Study of One Multicultural
Training Organization 216
Petrüska Clarkson and Yuko Nippoda
20 Multicultural Counselling Research: An Evaluation
with Proposals for Future Research 240
Peter Jewel
Afterword 268
Appendix 1: Recommended Reading 269
Appendix 2: Professional Bodies and Organizations 271
Index 274
Editor
Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is a chartered psychologist (counselling
and health), a UKCP registered psychotherapist, a certified REBT super-
visor and a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psycho-
therapy. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management and
the Centre for Multimodal Therapy in London, an Honorary Professor of
Psychology in the Centre for Health and Counselling Psychology, City
University and Visiting Professor in the National Centre for Work Based
Learning Partnerships at Middlesex University. He has written or edited
over 20 books including Counselling in a Multicultural Society (1999, Sage)
with Pittu Laungani. He is Honorary Vice President of the International
Stress Management Association (UK) and of the Institute of Health
Promotion and Education.
His special interests include stress management, brief therapy and
multicultural counselling. His overseas work has included teaching
counselling and psychotherapy in Beijing, China, Tokyo, Japan, and
Wellington, New Zealand. He was given an award for his work on behalf
of the Women's Hotline Counselling Service in Beijing. In 2000, he jointly
received the Annual Counselling Psychology Award for his Outstanding
professional and scientific contribution to Counselling Psychology in
Britain'.