Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy With Deaf Persons

The impetus for this volume is the growing awareness within the mental health and larger community of a culturally affirmative model for understanding and assisting deaf people. In contrast to the ",medical-pathological", model which treats deafness as a disability, the ",cultural", model guides us to view deaf persons in relation to the deaf community--a group of people with a common language, culture, and collective identity. A primary tenant of culturally affirmative psychotherapy is to understand and respect such differences, not to eradicate them.The contributors to this volume present a practical and realistic model of providing culturally affirmative counseling and psychotherapy for deaf people. The three dimensions of this model have been delineated by the multicultural counseling literature. These dimensions assert that culturally affirmative psychotherapy with deaf persons requires therapist self-awareness, knowledge of the deaf community/culture, and understanding of culturally-syntonic therapeutic interventions.The first to exhaustively delineate the implications of the cultural model of deafness for counseling deaf people, this book is essential reading for anyone who works in an educational or counseling capacity with the deaf. This audience includes not only psychotherapists, but also vocational, guidance and residence counselors, teachers, independent living skills specialists, interpreters, and administrators of programs for the deaf.

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Neil S. Glickman, Michael A. Harvey

Zusammenfassung
This book showcases papers presented at the annual Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference. The contributors -- active scholars with both practitioner and academic backgrounds -- share an interest in the general area of psychographics, values, and lifestyle in advertising. The interdisciplinary and international mix of authors bring a diverse perspective to this volume, which is divided into four nonorthogonal sections. The first section deals with theoretical and conceptual issues in advertising research, while the second section presents chapters devoted to improving methodology. The final two sections illustrate how value, lifestyle, and psychographic research have been used to understand differences among people. The first of these final two sections emphasizes differences among people at different times (commonly called trend research), and the second emphasizes differences among people across national boundaries. Collectively, these chapters illustrate how practical state-of-the-art research in values, lifestyles, and psychographics can be. Thoughtful consideration of values, lifestyles, and psychographics as they are manifested in quality research can improve advertising and marketing practice, and can help the business community deliver products and services that are more in line with consumers' needs.

Inhalt

Contents: Preface. N.S. Glickman, What Is Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy? H. Lane, Cultural Self-Awareness in Hearing People. R. Hoffmeister, M.A. Harvey, Is There a Psychology of the Hearing? T. Humphries, Of Deaf-mutes, the Strange, and the Modern Deaf Self. N.S. Glickman, The Development of Culturally Deaf Identities. M.A. Harvey, Utilization of Traumatic Transference by a Hearing Therapist. G. Isenberg, Storytelling and Use of Culturally Appropriate Metaphors in Psychotherapy With Deaf People. S. Zitter, Report From the Front Lines: Balancing Multiple Roles of a Deafness Therapist. T.M. Wax, Mental Health Service and the Deaf Community: Deaf Leaders as Culture Brokers. L.R. Lytle, J.W. Lewis, Deaf Therapists, Deaf Clients, and the Therapeutic Relationship. N.S. Glickman, M.A. Harvey, Concluding Thoughts.