Integrating Spirituality into Multicultural Counseling / Edition 1

by Mary A. Fukuyama, Todd D. Sevig

Overview

This is a very helpful book for mental health professionals providing therapy, counselling and health and social care services, as it explores and integrates multicultural and spiritual perspectives in a practical and informative manner. It highlights the fact that spiritual dimension has an enormous relevance to multicultural counselling' - Transcultural Psychiatry

This book challenges practitioners with the proposal that integrating spiritual values in multicultural counselling and exploring spirituality from multicultural perspectives are synergistic and mutually reciprocal processes.

Chapter topics include: developmental models of the spiritual journey; integrating spiritual and mul

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761915843
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/28/1999
Series:	Multicultural Aspects of Counseling series , #13
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.47(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction - Paul Pederson
The Spiritual Journey
Worldviews
The Spiritual Journey
Developmental Models
Multiculturalism and Spirituality
Positive and Negative Expressions of Spirituality
Content Issues
Emptying and Releasing
Content Issues
Filling and Fulfilling
Process Issues
An Integrative Model and Spiritual Interventions

Editorial Reviews

Psychologist counselors Fukuyama (U. of Florida-Gainsville) and Sevig (U. of Michigan) explain to other practitioners how to incorporate spirituality into therapy, counseling, social work, and health related services in a multicultural context. They discuss such topics as multicultural worldviews, developmental models of the spiritual journey, clarifying healthy and unhealthy expressions of spirituality, and spiritual issues expressed through pain and loss. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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