Culturally adaptive counseling skills : demonstrations of evidence-based practices / editors, Miguel E. Gallardo ... [and others.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Machine generated contents note: Foreword -- J. Manuel Casas1. Introduction and Overview -- AuthorsPart I -- African Centered Applications of the SISM2. Delivering Culturally Competent Therapeutic Services to African American Clients -- Thomas A. Parham3. Case Illustration: Reflections on the Culturally Adaptive Model of Counseling for Persons of African Descent -- Cheryl Tawede Grills4. Case Illustration: Exploring African American Case with the AA-SISM -- Anderson J. FranklinPart II -- Sociocultural Specific Therapeutic Skills for Latina/os: Expanding Our Evidence-Based Practice Perspectives5. Therapists as Cultural Architects and Systemic Advocates -- Miguel E. Gallardo6. Case Illustration: Evidence-based Practice with Latina/o Adolescents and Families -- I. David Acevedo-Polakovich, PhD and Cheryl Gering, Massachusetts7. Case Illustration: Implementation and Application of Latina/o Values in Practice -- Susana O. SalgadoPart III -- Culturally Adapted Counseling Skills for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders8. Working with Asian American and Pacific Islander Clients -- Christine J. Yeh9. Case Illustration: Culturally Adaptive Model of Counseling -- Nita Tewari and Arpana Inman10. Case Illustration: A Culturally Adaptive Conceptualization for 1.5 Generation of Southeast Asian Americans -- Jorge Wong and Kao Chiu Saechao, M.S.W.Part IV -- North American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Moving Beyond the Surface Level11. Working with North American Indian and Alaska Native Clients -- Joseph E. Trimble12. Case Illustration: The Treatment of PTSD with a Laguna Pueblo Woman -- Jeff King13. Case Illustration: The Throw Away Boy: The Case of of an Eastern Woodlands American Indian Adolescent -- Gayle Skawennio Morse and Angela M. EnnoPart V -- Challenging Misperceptions and Widening the Lens: Middle Eastern Americans14. Middle Eastern Americans (MEA) in Therapy: An Application of the Skills Identification Stage Model -- Maryam Sayyedi, Noha Alshugairi and Metra Azar Salem15. Case Illustration: The Case of Kian: Application of the MaineA-SISM -- Maryam Sayyedi, Noha Alshugairi and Metra Azar Salem16. Case Illustration: The Case of Mena and Ahmad: Application of the MaineA-SISM -- Maryam Sayyedi, Noha Alshugairi and Metra Azar SalemPart Virgin Islands -- Where do we go from here: Education, Training, Practice and Research Implications17. "So what should I actually do?" Developing Skills for Greater Multicultural Competence -- Rebecca L. Toporek18. Multicultural Counseling in a Multitheoretical Context: New Applications for Practice -- Jeff E. Harris19. Ecological and Culturally Responsive Directions for the Skills Identification Stage Model -- Yeh and othersAfterword -- Janet Helms.

"A key supplement for courses on multicultural counseling, this book is a practical volume that will help faculty and students see demonstrations of multicultural counseling in practice. The text covers evidence-based practices for working with five major ethnic groups, while weaving in other factors such as gender, disability, sexuality, and more. Each chapter has two case studies by an invited expert who also provides commentary and lessons drawing upon each case"--

"The intent of this book is to shift from a top-down to a bottom-up perspective in the way that we understand ethnocultural communities. The book outlines the Skills Identification Stage Model (SISM) as initially proposed by Parham (2002) to establish specific skills in working with African American communities. In addition to highlighting the original African American model, the book has adapted the model to highlight its utility with the Asian, Latino, Native, and Middle Eastern American communities. Each specific ethnocultural community is addressed with case examples to highlight the model's implementation. In addition, the book addresses how the content can be integrated into the classroom and how it can help students develop the needed skills to respond to the needs of ethnocultural communities. The book also addresses future implications for education, training, practice, and research and elaborates on the multiple perspectives in attempting to understand, and further develop, a multicultural framework"--

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