Counseling Across Cultures

Counseling Across Cultures, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive examination of the increasing priority of culture in the counseling process. The contributors examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling, highlighting work with groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, refugees, and international students. Chapters also consider culturally appropriate counseling methods as they relate to gender, aged populations, health psychology, and school settings. 

Edward D. Rossini

This is the fourth edition of a classic text in counseling psychology and psychotherapy practice originally published in 1976. It improves on the usual organization of multicultural counseling books, and contains a chapter-length introduction to a specific group and its constructions of psychopathology (e.g., Native Americans) and a more truly pancultural series of global and specific integrative chapters. The final chapter is the most academic in nature, conducting research on multicultural counseling effectiveness. The purpose is to update the research base and counseling practice knowledge on multicultural intervention, truly the fourth force in contemporary counseling practice. These are worthy goals, and this book largely meets those goals. Targeted for counseling psychologists, clinical psychologists, and master-level graduate students in all human services disciplines, this book will be most useful for graduate students and counseling interns. This book has a number of interesting features. All chapters have a clearly stated Primary Objective and one or more clearly stated Secondary Objectives,allowing readers to survey chapters rapidly for more comprehensive reading selections. Another important feature is the inclusion of four chapters integrating focal pancultural issues in counseling: gender issues, refugee status, international students, and professional ethics. Each chapter has extensive references. An indirect important feature is that all chapters but one are joint authored; integrative writing avoids partisan positions. Unlike most edited books, this text has very few weak chapters. This is an essential book for all college and graduate institution libraries.It is recommended for larger public libraries as well. The rapidly changing field of multicultural counseling mandates using this book to replace previous editions.

Joseph E. Trimble (Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Institute of Group Relations), formerly a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is Professor of Psychology at Western Washington University, a Senior Scholar at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University, and a Research Associate for the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  He has held offices in the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the American Psychological Assocation.  He holds Fellow status in three APA divisions (9, 27, 45) and is a past-President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (APA Division 45) and a Council member for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (APA Division 9).  Dr. Trimble has generated over 100 publications on cross-cultural and ethnic topics in psychology including 14 edited, co-edited, and co-authored books.  His most recent co-edited Handbook of Racial & Ethnic Minority Psychology was selected as a CHOICE Magazine Outstanding Academic Title in 2004.  The majority of his articles, book chapters, and books focus on the role of culture and ethnicity in psychology, with an emphasis on American Indian and Alaska Native populations.  In the past decade, though, he expanded his interests to include writing and research on ethnic and racial identity, cultural measurement equivalence, spirituality, and ethics, as well as contributing to the growth of ethnic psychology.  He has received numerous excellence in teaching and mentoringawards for his work in the field of ethnic and cultural psychology, including the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Paul J. Olscamp Faculty Research Award from Western Washington University, the APA Division 45 Lifetime Achievement Award, the Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Professional Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, the Washington State Psychological Association Distinguished Psychologist Award for 2002, and the Peace and Social Justice Award from APA Division 48.