Description

Counseling is a type of counseling where the therapist addresses the struggles of a clientwho’s race, gender, socioeconomic background, religion, or any other part of their identity doesn’t fit in with the majority. Minorities have a history of dealing with racism and oppression, and in this lens, a counselor that doesn’t take that information into account isn’t able to effectively counsel. In the therapy session, the socioculitural environment of the individual and issues of power and privilege are given attention.This is a strengths based approach; counselors focus on positive change in both the process and the outcome.The driving force behind multicultural counseling is that people from minority groups view the world through different lenses and that counselors, psychologists, and therapistsof any race need to be sensitive to their unique difficulties and experiences. Multicultural counseling involves therapists demonstrating an understanding of their patients and their struggles with cultural issues, racism, and other related experiences. Always emphasizing caring and empathy, multicultural counseling enables therapists to better address unique challenges, considering how a patient’s experience may be different from their Own. Multicultural counseling is one of the major theoretical forces in psychology. It emerged as a necessary backlash to traditional psychological theories that assumed that Eurocentric White and middle-class values are societal norms.

Competence in multicultural counseling is crucial in societies with multiple representations of Cultural groups whose social power and privilege statuses are differentiated based on visible (e.g., race, gender) and invisible(e.g., homosexual/bisexual/trans-gendered orientation, language) attributes. The book covers both theory and practice, outlining different approaches to multicutural and transcultural counselling, highlighting the racism implicit in some counselling theory and providing examples of multicultural counselling practice.

Contents:
1.Multicultural Counseling:Types, Strategies, and Techniques
2. Counselling and Psychotherapy
3. Cultural Knowledge and Counselling,
4. Understanding Multicultural Counseling Theory
5.Therapies:Psychodynamic,Humanistic, Cognitive and Behaviour
6. Cognitively Oriented Counseling Approaches
7. Multicultural Counseling Skills
8. Cognitive Behavioural Counselling
9. Personality Development through Dream Therapy
10. Risk Factors for Mental illness, 11.Ayurveda and Yoga Therapy.

About the Author
Sunita Puskar received her Nursing Diploma from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Sonbhadra.She holds a bachelors degree in Nursing, a master’s degree in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing, and a masters degree in Public Healthand a doctoral in Public Health from Indian School of Nursing, Sonbhadra.She is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Nursing, a certifiedclinical nurse specialistin adult psychiatric nursing by the Indian Nurses’ Association,and has been presented the Distinguished Lecturer Award by government.

She has funded research in the area of stress and coping in women and adolescents has published many papers and delivered over seven national/intermational presentations.
Presently,she is a faculty member at the University of Sonbhadra School of Nursing, Departmentof Health and Community Systems.