Counseling Across Cultures (Counselling & Psychotherapy in Focus) [Hardcover]

Paul B. Pedersen (Author), Juris G. Draguns (Author), Walter J. Lonner (Author), Joseph E. (Everett) Trimble (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 28, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0761920854 | ISBN-13: 978-0761920854 | Edition: 5th

Counseling Across Cultures, Fifth Edition offers a comprehensive examination of the increasing priority of culture in the counseling process. The contributors examine the cultural context of accurate assessment and appropriate interventions in counseling, highlighting work with groups including African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, refugees, and international students. Chapters also consider culturally appropriate counseling methods as they relate to gender, aged populations, health psychology, and school settings. 

Editorial Reviews

Review

'The editors have masterfully accomplished their goals of "articulating the positive contributions that can be made by incorporating multicultural awareness in the training of skilled counsellors". The Fourth Edition of Counseling across Cultures is an excellent source of information and remains a classic in its field' - Contemporary

About the Author

Walter J. Lonner has been dedicated to cross-cultural psychological research since the mid-1960s. He is Founding and Special Issues Editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Inaugurated in 1970, JCCP has been a key component in the rapid modern ascent of the psychological study of culture. A charter member, past president, and Honorary Fellow of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), Lonner has been involved with about forty books concerning various facets of cross-cultural psychological research and applications. IACCP recently inaugurated a Distinguished Invited Lecturer Series in his name to honor his contributions and continuing dedication to the field. He has had sabbatical leaves in Germany, Mexico, and New Zealand and has attended conferences and delivered papers in more than 30 countries. A former Fulbright scholar (Germany, 1984-85), Lonner is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Western Washington University, where he co-founded the Center for Cross-Cultural Research in 1969. Most importantly, prior to his retirement in 2001 for nearly 35 years he taught his favorite course, Psychology and Culture, more than 100 times.

 

 

Paul Pedersen is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and Professor Emeritus from Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, Syracuse University, University of Alabama at Birmingham and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia. He was also on the Summer School Faculty at Harvard University, 1984-1988 and the University of Pittsburgh - Semester at Sea voyage around the world, Spring 1992. International experience, numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe; and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University 1999-2000. He has authored, co-authored or edited 40 books, 99 articles and 72 chapters on aspects of multicultural counseling and international communication. He is a Fellow in Divisions 9, 17, 45 and 52 of the American Psychological Association. For more information and a complete CV contact http//:soeweb.syr.edu/chs/Pedersen.

Juris G. Draguns was born in Latvia, completed primary schooling in his native country, graduated from high school in Germany, and obtained his undergraduate degree in the United States. His Ph.D. in clinical psychology is from the University of Rochester. In 1997 he retired from Pennsylvania State University as Professor Emeritus of Psychology. He has taught and lectured, in five languages, at the University of Mainz in Germany; Lund University in Sweden; East-West Center in Hawaii; Flinders University of South Australia; National Taiwan University in Taipei, University of the Americas-Puebla in Cholula, Mexico; and University of Latvia and Baltic Russian Institute, both in Riga. He continues to pursue his interests in cross-cultural research on psychotherapy and counseling and other topics. He is recipient of American Psychological Association’s Award for Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology and of an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Latvia and is President of Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

Joseph E. Trimble, Ph.D.: Joseph E. Trimble (PhD, University of Oklahoma, Institute of Group Relations, 1969) is a Distinguished University Professor and member of the Department of Psychology, the Woodring College of Education, and a Research Associate in the Center for Cross-Cultural Research at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Also, he is a Senior Scholar at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University and a Research Associate for the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. From 2000-2001, he was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 472 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 5th edition (January 28, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761920854
• ISBN-13: 978-0761920854
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,555,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)