Diversity in College Settings

Directives for Helping Professionals

Yvonne M Jenkins editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:1st Dec '98

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Diversity in College Settings cover

As student populations become more diverse, college mental health facilities are challenged to modify traditional theoretical and practice frameworks. The first case book to focus on counseling and mental health intervention with diverse college populations, Diversity in College Settings is a timely and important collection. Taken together, the studies redirect the focus of college mental health practice, arguing convincingly for acknowledging diversity, cultivating cultural competence among health practitioners and the adoption of ethnospecific and cultural parameters in serving college populations.

"The work of Yvonne Jenkins and the contributing authors in Diversity in College Settings is designed to illustrate the intersection between diversity, counseling and mental health issues in institutions of higher education. . .This text is a useful resource for anyone committed to the growth and development of historically underrepresented college students. . . Its progressive qualitative style serves as a model for holistically understanding individual student experience and needs." --Partamin Farzad Nawabi, Univ. of Maryland for the Journal of College Student Development, July/August 2000."
"Diversity in College Settings provides a rich, comprehensive contribution to the area of diversity in mental health practice. Dr. Jenkins and her colleagues deserve special praise for using their insights and experiences to address the complexity and significance of diversity head-on." -- Dr. Herbert M. Joseph, Director of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston University School of Medicine
" Diversity in College Settings is a collection of clinical and counseling case studies of college students from diverse populations. Using a broad definition of diversity that includes race, gender, ethnicity, culture, health concerns, age, and learning challenges, it address the issues of mental health intervention and diversity." -- The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology

ISBN: 9780415913058

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 670g

276 pages