Race, Culture and Counselling: The Ongoing Challenge

by Colin Lago

Book Overview

Can therapy involving a therapist and client from differing cultural, ethnic and racial origins work? What are the main barriers to this relationship working well? What knowledge, skill and attitudes are required by therapists to enhance their work with "different" clients? Therapists are inevitably affected by their own backgrounds, experiences and prejudices, which may manifest negatively within therapeutic relationships with clients of different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335216943
• ISBN13: 9780335216949
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"