Multicultural Counselling

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK's first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking.

PART ONE: COUNSELLING AND RACE Counselling and Race - Colin Lago and Joyce Thompson Working with Issues of Race in Counselling - Aisha Dupont-Joshua PART TWO: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MULTICULTURAL COUNSELLING Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy - Zack Eleftheriadou A Philosophical Framework Multicultural Issues in Eclectic and Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy - Colin Lago and Roy Moodley Counselling Idiographically - Stephen Palmer The Multimodal Approach Transcultural Family Therapy - Zoubida Guernina Therapy with Intercultural Couples - Joan L Biever, Monte Bobele and Mary-Wales North A Postmodern Approach Counselling Black Employees Facing Racism and Discrimination - Nick Banks Crisis Counselling - Romeria Tidwell Counselling Foreign Students - P L S Khoo, M H Abu-Rasain and G Hornby A Review of Strategies Buddhism and Counselling - Padmil de Silva Good Practice in Transcultural Counselling - Amanda Webb Johnson and Zenobia Nadirshaw An Asian Perspective Understanding Mental Illness Across Culture - Pittu Laungani `I Say What I Like' - Roy Moodley Frank Talk(ing) in Counselling and Psychotherapy PART THREE: ETHNIC MATCHING IN COUNSELLING Ethnic Matching in Counselling - Waseem J Alladin How Important Is It to Ethnically Match Clients and Counsellors An Analysis of the Facilitative Effects of Gender in Counselling Practice - Pat Ward and Nick Banks Cross-Cultural/Racial Matching in Counselling and Therapy - Roy Moodley and Shukla Dhingra White Clients and Black Counsellors PART FOUR: RESEARCH Investigating Biases in Trainee Counsellors' Attitudes to Clients from Different Cultures - Anita Pearce The Experienced Influence of Effect of Cultural/Racism Issue on the Practice of Counselling Psychology - Petr[um]uska Clarkson and Yuko Nippoda A Qualitative Study of One Multicultural Training Organization Multicultural Counselling Research - Peter Jewel An Evaluation with Proposals for Future Research

'Raising cultural awareness and challenging assumptions, this book will be essential reading' - Stress News