Counseling and Psychotherapy: Toward A New Perspective

From Intercultural Awareness to Intercultural Empathy

“…However, it's important to emphasize that cultural empathy is not sympathy with, agreement with or identification with a specific culture. Rather, it is the appropriate understanding of a culture's values and beliefs; it has been described as "seeing the world through another's eyes, hearing as they might hear, and feeling and experiencing their internal world," which does not involve "mixing your own thoughts and actions with those of the client" (Ivey, Ivey, & Simek-Morgan, 1997). Therefore the culturally empathic languages learners retain their separate cultural identity and simultaneously are aware of and accept the cultural values and beliefs of the people with different cultural background.…”

A Tale of Two Visions: Can a New View of Personality Help Integrate Psychology?

“…In one study, 52 such change techniques were studied (Mayer, 2004b). The techniques were sampled from a range of psychotherapies described in counseling and psychotherapy textbooks (Day, 2004;Ivey, D'Andrea, Ivey, & Simek-Morgan, 2002;Prochaska & Norcross, 2003;Scharf, 2004). A sample technique was "analysis of transference" (psychodynamic), and it was defined as bringing into consciousness a given pattern from an early relationship that is being repeated in the current psychotherapeutic relationship.…”

School Counselor Use of Narrative Therapy to Support Students of Color Transitioning from an Alternative School Setting

“…Counselors engaging in narrative therapy listen more than question using caring, non-judgmental active listening skills (Ivey, D'Andrea, Ivey, & Simek-Morgan, 2007;Madigan, 2011). Listening in this way would allow Derrick to be the story's "expert" (Madigan, 2011).…”