Culturally Adaptive Counseling Skills

"This text is practice and evidence-based. This will be one of the first texts to actually bridge the gaps between awareness, knowledge and (research based) practice. We all know the importance of training our students to become culturally competent practitioners but our texts don’t demonstrate how to skillfully effect therapeutic change. The case examples are going to really make this text notable. Professional therapists and scholars are going to share firsthand experiences with working with the culturally diverse groups. More importantly, they are going to introduce their theoretical orientation AND walk the reader through the tenets of the Culturally Adaptive Model so that the reader conceptualizes the client’s issues – and helps the client resolve his/her issues." -- Shunda Brown
"The emphasis of this text on practitioner self-awareness, knowledge of diverse groups, practice-based evidence, and the proposed cases of practice-based evidence approaches with various ethnocultural populations will be very valuable. It fills an important gap in the current materials available for multicultural counseling courses." -- Donna Dockery
"The text description clearly identifies the benefits to masters’ level graduate students. It would be a valuable supplemental text for a masters’ level introductory course in cross/multi cultural counseling. It is also likely to be useful as a stand- alone for text the broader audience of doctoral students and professional development training for practitioners." -- Yvonne Callaway