The multicultural perspective in therapy: A social constructionist approach.

González, Roberto Cortéz; Biever, Joan L.; Gardner, Glen T.

doi:10.1037/0033-3204.31.3.515

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“…An example of a multicultural theoretical model that places emphasis on the sociopolitical context is Gonzalez, Biever, and Gardner's (1994) Social Constructionist Approach. Fuertes and Gretchen reviewed this approach in Ponterotto et al's (2001) second edition of the Handbook of Multicultural Counselling.…”

Section: Multicultural Counselling Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An anthropological perspective on multicultural counselling

Gerstein

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Ordóñez³

2007

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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We introduce a more culturally sensitive framework based on anthropology to conceptualize diverse groups. We contend anthropology has much to offer counselling when theorizing about multicultural models of behaviour and potential strategies for prevention, psychoeducation, intervention, social action, and research. Anthropological concepts like thick description, semiotic constructs of culture, and ethnographic depictions of culture are introduced. We also describe how anthropology conceptualizes culture, how it investigates culture, and how it trains students to understand culture. Finally, we highlight a few major theories of multicultural counselling, research strategies typically employed in multicultural counselling, and how counselling students are currently prepared to understand cultural issues and practice effective multicultural counselling. We believe that counselling would be well served to embrace anthropology and shift its lens from an individual microscope to a vibrant, multicultural, kaleidoscope of social patterns. More importantly, cultures throughout the world could potentially benefit from multiculturally competent counsellors who perform as social architects.

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Section: Multicultural Counselling Theoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

An anthropological perspective on multicultural counselling

Gerstein

Rountree

Ordóñez³

2007

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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“…Simultaneously, students should develop a theoretical base for studying culture that includes learning key cultural concepts such as ethnocentrism, acculturation, high‐ vs. low context, collectivism vs. individualism, and free will vs. determinism, and incorporate the principles of transformative learning that instigate critical reflection. Major goals include the development of a multicultural perspective that acknowledges the individual, not the professional, as the ‘expert’ on his or her own mulitculturalism (Gonzalez et al . 1994); the recognition of the self as a cultural being; and the acceptance of culture as multileveled, dynamic, and relative.…”

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A critique of cultural education in nursing

Duffy

2001

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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The principles of transformative education are offered as an alternative to the current approaches to cultural education. Students are encouraged to be vulnerable to personal change when interacting with people from other cultures because transformative education is as much about personal growth as it is about enhanced care of others. This modernized approach to cultural education transcends the standard adaptation of care from the dominant culture of the health care delivery system to the culture of the client/patient.

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“…Knowledge, behaviour and change are conceived as linearly caused with clinical outcomes being derived from a logical validation of accurate and adaptive perceptions, cognitions and behaviour (Mahoney, 1988). Numerous scholars (Amudson et al, 1993;Anderson, 1996;Gonzalez et al, 1994;Hoffman, 1990;Loos and Epstein, 1989;Mahoney, 1988;O'Hanlon, 1993) have delineated the pragmatic clinical implications from a modernist clinical stance. Modernist models of therapy represent an attempt to discover the objective truth and the underlying or 'real' problems of clients.…”

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A contextual perspective of clinical judgement in couples and family therapy: is the bridge too far?

Ivey

Scheel

Jankowski

1999

Journal of Family Therapy

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This paper reviews the clinical judgement literature and discusses its applicability to the practice of couples and family therapy. Key findings and conceptual foundations are highlighted. A contextual perspective is advocated to guide future investigations and to enhance the generalizability of the literature to the real-life experiences of therapists. Suggestions for theory development and future research are provided.The ascribed importance of therapist judgement to the clinical and counselling practices of psychology, psychiatry, social work, marriage and family therapy, and other mental health disciplines is perhaps best exemplified by the burgeoning numbers of texts devoted to interviewing and assessment. Articles and volumes are published at an exponential rate detailing the evaluative, diagnostic and treatment planning arts employed by mental health practitioners. Such attention is paralleled in formal training and continuing educational experiences. Over the course of a typical therapist's career, substantial time and energy is invested in activities designed to enhance his or her ability to accurately and efficiently determine the nature of client concerns and appropriate plans for intervention. Practitioners are consequently impressed early on in their development with the critical, if not central role of clinical acumen. Therapists commonly subscribe to the premise that client outcomes are, in the main, attributable to their personal proficiency in assessment and treatment decision-making. Amplified by the growing influence of managed care, practitioners

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The multicultural perspective in therapy: A social constructionist approach.

Cited by 35 publications

References 54 publications

An anthropological perspective on multicultural counselling

An anthropological perspective on multicultural counselling

A critique of cultural education in nursing

A contextual perspective of clinical judgement in couples and family therapy: is the bridge too far?

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