Diversity in College Settings: Directives for Helping Professionals

by Yvonne M. Jenkins (Editor)

Overview

As student populations become more diverse, college mental health facilities are challenged to modify traditional theoretical and practice frameworks. The first case book to focus on counseling and mental health intervention with diverse college populations, Diversity in College Settings is a timely and important collection. Taken together, the studies redirect the focus of college mental health practice, arguing convincingly for acknowledging diversity, cultivating cultural competence among health practitioners and the adoption of ethnospecific and cultural parameters in serving college populations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136663307
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Yvonne M. Jenkins is an Associate Psychologist at Harvard University Health Services. She is co-author of Diversityin Psychotherapy: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, andGender,(1993) and Community Health Psychology(Routledge, 1998).

Table of Contents

Chester M. Pierce -- Foreword
Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Preface
PART I COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY WITHSTUDENTS OF COLOR
1 Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Diversity in College Settings: The Challenge of Helping Professionals
2 Winona F. Simms -- The Native American Indian Client: A Tale of Two Cultures
3Irving M. Allen -- Therapeutic Considerations for African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions
4 M. Maureen Walker -- Dual Traumatization: A Sociocultural Perspective
5 Jenai Wu -- Engagement of an Asian American Woman: Cultural and Psychological Issues
6 Connie S. Chan -- Culture, Sexuality, and Shame: A Korean American Woman's Experience
7 SuzanneH. Vogel -- Culture Shock and Cross-Cultural Therapy with a Japanese Student
8 Margarita Alvarez -- Diversity Among Latinas: Implications for College Mental Health
9 Diane Hart-Webb -- The Biracial Bind: An Identity Dilemma
10 Brunilda De Leon, Michelle C. Stefanisko and Belinda Lopez Corteza -- College Enrollment and Academic Success Among Puerto Rican Women
11 Doris J.Wright -- Group Services for Students of Color
PARTII UNDERRECOGNIZED AND EMERGING CHALLENGES
12 KennethT. Dinklage -- The World of the So-Called "Learning Disabled" Student
13 Diane G. Hansen -- Key Factors That Differentiate Nontraditional From Traditional Students
14 SungLim A. Shin -- Contextualizing Career Concerns of Asian American Students
15 Nadja B. Gould -- Psychotherapy in the Shadow of Death: A Graduate Student with AIDS
16 Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Salient Themes and Directives for College Helping Professionals
Thomas A. Parham -- Afterword

Editorial Reviews

"The work of Yvonne Jenkins and the contributing authors in Diversity in College Settings is designed to illustrate the intersection between diversity, counseling and mental health issues in institutions of higher education. . .This text is a useful resource for anyone committed to the growth and development of historically underrepresented college students. . . Its progressive qualitative style serves as a model for holistically understanding individual student experience and needs." —Partamin Farzad Nawabi, Univ. of Maryland for the Journal of College Student Development, July/August 2000."
"Diversity in College Settings provides a rich, comprehensive contribution to the area of diversity in mental health practice. Dr. Jenkins and her colleagues deserve special praise for using their insights and experiences to address the complexity and significance of diversity head-on." — Dr. Herbert M. Joseph, Director of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston University School of Medicine
" Diversity in College Settings is a collection of clinical and counseling case studies of college students from diverse populations. Using a broad definition of diversity that includes race, gender, ethnicity, culture, health concerns, age, and learning challenges, it address the issues of mental health intervention and diversity." — The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology

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