Culture-Centered Counseling and Interviewing Skills: A Practical Guide / Edition 1

by Allen E. Ivey, Paul Pedersen

Overview

This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275946692
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/26/1993
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.48(d)
Lexile:	1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

PAUL B. PEDERSEN is Professor of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is well known for his expertise in multicultural counseling. His previous books include Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling and Therapy (Greenwood Press, 1985).

ALLEN IVEY is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. An ABPP Diplomate and past President of the Division of Counseling Psychology of APA, he is the author of 20 books translated into 14 languages. His most recent work is Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Multicultural Perspective (1992).

Table of Contents

Culture Centeredness
The Multicultural Three-Step
The Cultural Grid and Culture Systems
Four Synthetic Cultures
Culture-Centered Skill Development
Preparing to Learn Culture-Centered Skills
Basic Attending Skills
Paraphrasing, Summarizing, and Encouraging Skills
Question-Asking Skills
Reflecting Feeling and Reflecting Meaning
Confrontation and Mediation Skills
Focusing, Directing, and Interpreting Skills
References
Index