Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy

Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy is a historical, conceptual, and applied resource for cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy.
This text is divided into four parts, wherein the first part sets the foundations of the field by discussing its history, issues, status, overview, and ethnicity and interactional rules. The second part evaluates the expectancy effects and process and outcome variables in cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy, as well as drug and other therapies across cultures. The subsequent part emphasizes the ethnocultural considerations, featuring counseling African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Japanese Americans, American Indians, and Alaskan natives. This book concludes by presenting the future perspectives of the field.
This book will be very invaluable to counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, and psychology students.

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Preface
I. Foundations

1. Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy: History, Issues, Current Status
2. Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy: A Research Overview
3. Ethnicity and Interactional Rules in Counseling and Psychotherapy: Some Basic Considerations
   II. Evaluation
4. Evaluating Expectancy Effects in Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy
5. Evaluating Process Variables in Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy
6. Evaluating Outcome Variables in Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy
7. Evaluating Drug and Other Therapies Across Cultures
   III. Ethnocultural considerations
8. Black Americans and the Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy Experience
9. Pluralistic Counseling and Psychotherapy for Hispanic Americans
10. Counseling and Psychotherapy with Japanese Americans
11. Counseling and Psychotherapy with American Indians and Alaskan Natives
    IV. Future perspectives
12. Counseling and Psychotherapy: Toward a New Perspective
13. Alternative Futures for Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy
    Index
    About the Editors and Contributors