Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction

by Garrett McAuliffe (Editor)

The Second Edition of Culturally Alert Counseling is a thorough update to the first comprehensive guide to culturally alert counseling, complete with a companion demonstration DVD. Co-author and editor Garrett J. McAuliffe expands the traditional "definition" of multicultural counseling from the usual two categories of race and ethnicity to seven groupings. The book and companion DVD encourage readers to examine the complex nature of culture and how it impacts all stages of the counseling process.

Genres: Psychology, Counselling, Read For School

624 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Joel Hacker · Rating 4 out of 5]

More reading as part of a grad program for school counselors and LPCs. While I can’t say I’d pick it up and read it on a whim, it’s definitely one of the best written textbooks in this grad program so far. It’s a broad overview of multicultural issues in counseling, mostly emphasizing one cultural group per chapter. While I would like more detail and differentiation, it wouldn’t have been appropriate in this type of survey text. With the exception of only one or two chapters, the editor did a good job of selecting engagingly as well as sensitively and informatively written chapters.

[Leigh · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read this for my Multicultural class in a counseling program, so I can't exactly say I enjoyed it. However, it was a well-written book that was easy to understand & provided a lot of good information about not only the different cultures in the US, but their backgrounds & how to counsel them.

[Sarah Joyce Bryant · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic, eye-opening book for anyone working with people from different cultures, which is all of us! I learned SO much from this book and it has piqued my interest to learn even more about different cultures.

[Kate Wester · Rating 3 out of 5]

Readable. Message: don't generalize. Everyone's an individual. But here are some over-simplifications in case you need to generalize...