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 | | Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice by Derald Wing Sue, David Sue ISBN-10: 9780471419808 ISBN-10: 0-471-41980-X ISBN-13: 9780471419808 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-41980-8 Hardcover 2002-08-15 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The bestselling resource and most cited reference in multicultural counseling and therapy Thoroughly revised, Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, Fourth Edition is "the classic" in the field of multicultural counseling and therapy. This latest edition offers a contemporary expansion of the definition of multicultural counseling that pushes the boundaries of the field and allows for a more inclusive and meaningful way of looking at and treating diverse populations. Noted experts Derald Wing Sue and David Sue have updated the book to include new developments in research, theory, and practice. Major additions include: a more expansive definition of multiculturalism; the most recent statistics on the changing complexion of society; and implications for counseling and clinical practice that these changes have precipitated, which are forcing clinicians to redefine their roles and reeducate themselves on how to tend to these varied populations. Completely updated, Counseling the Culturally Diverse includes:
Combining a sound conceptual framework for multicultural counseling with proven therapeutic methods for specific populations, Counseling the Culturally Diverse remains the best source of real-world counseling preparation for students and the most enlightened and influential guide for all mental health professionals. | ||
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Necessary education for the culturally encapsulated counselor I am grateful that the Sue's pulled no punches in their text. The "invisible veil" of white privilege in the U.S. can only be pierced with sharp rhetoric. I agree with their argument that we are all proponents of racist practices if we don't act to challenge the status quo, which is: White's hold the majority of power, wealth, and the distribution of both in the US. Improvements have been made in certain sectors, but there are still many culturally-insensitive (i.e. biased) institutions and color-blind people that minorities must deal with everyday. To me, proof of the blindness is proved in the polarity of responses and anger that this book engenders among reviewers. Whites don't want the status quo to change, it favors them. By the way, I am white. And I used to be color-blind. I didn't think race mattered, that we were all the same, and that racism was mostly over at the end of the 60's. I'm glad this book woke me up. I know that I will be a better counselor in the future because of it. | ||
Poor research, ham-handed weak sociology. A crap academic effort even after 4 editions South Park did a wonderful job of skewering the people who like this book with their episode on Smug. Smug folks lack the violence of racists at their fringes but can be equally dangerous and myopic. I see Sue fans quickly bending over to smell their own farts and dancing around their septic systems joyfully praising the wonderful earthiness and organic nature of the smell. Folks, it DOES stink. What scares me is that the supporters of this book think that counseling is this simple. The people who like this book, who assign it have 'overcome' the prejudices and are trying to share their 'enlightment'. The Sue brothers found such a smug, simplistic endorser of their work for this edition- Kiselica. Yes, for caucasians that are fully insulated from the hurly-burly of contemporary America, this book MIGHT be remedial reading. However, if this degree of remediation is necessary, it might be best if such a student were not pursuing counseling certificates and licenses. After all, we would have been better served if at least one of Maj. Hasan's professors hadn't been so 'inclusive' and simply stood up and said, "Gee, y'all, he's doing his work but I think the guys not quite competent and a bit of a nutter!" Hasan is an extreme example, but there are hundreds of folks getting a Master or Doctorate that simply don't belong in the profession because, in spite of weak attempts by their teachers, they have gotten B s and passed the tests. If this book teaches you much, you have been living in a cave or the equivalent of the B/W culture of the movie Pleasantville for most or all of your life. This book is not all that strident (read Eldridge Cleaver, Andrea Dworkin, etc. for that folks- at least they are honest and will call their work 'commentary' and not a textbook!) nor competently written. Actually, it is quite banal and stuck fully within the Micro-entitlements of the 1970's. By micro-entitlements, I means that each identified group must be given 'help' due to their sufferings from White Privilege. Sadly, in counseling there are a plethora of mediocre minds gumming up the works and treating diverse populations with a lack of skill somewhat worse than that of the Sue brothers and the pathetic twit Kiselica. Kiselica, in a properly entitled liberal white male eunich style declared that his culture is oppressive and then digs to find his own salvation through the sufferings of his own hyphenated ancestors and the high ground that he now stands upon due to his present enlightenment that makes him giddy with angst at how badly the edifice of American culture is treating others. Now that he has found out that he has suffered, renounced his role in the suffering of others, we can now all join in with him and enjoy the rancid bouquet of his own "Smug". Yippee! So, Sue, with some help from his brother catalogues the difficulties it is to be a ____ in America. There are a bunch of people that don't know how to work with 'otherness'. Sue is one of them. The tensions between the African-American and Korean-American populations were not (as he claims) caused by Koreans only being embarrassed and smiling. Read Malcolm X and you can see similar tensions in the A.-A. and Jewish communities half a century before. I'm not a Japanese linguist, but with my limited knowledge of Japanese, there are at least four forms of the pronoun 'I'. Sue claims there are none. It is often dropped, but watakushi, watashi, boku... exist. By Micro-entitlements, I mean that the book focuses on the simplistic boundaries set up in the social and academic politics of the 60's and 70's where people were identified and through noblese oblige, the 'best' were given opportunities in education that became their 'rights'. But what of Eldrick Woods, Jr.? Whatever ethnicity is (academically debateable), he is an 'ethnic' Chinese if we are doing a counting of drops of blood. But he is a Stanford alum. But.... Are his children African-American? I hear hearty "Yes"es and I say under our cultural discourse but what is identity. What happens to the Central Asian-American person who figures out s/he is gay? and politically Republican? and works in a factory as a union member? Sue separates each facet of identity that is oppressed by the dominant paradigm but never bothers to research nor believe that a client can be complex or have identity that may be at odds within themselves. Log Cabin Republicans really do exist, are happy, and lead purposeful lives. An African-American woman can become Chancellor at 'a good school', Secretary of State, and send the poor off to pointless death in Iraq for personal profit due to her own racism, incompetence, and cultural myopia. (Condi Rice, if you can't figure it out) I would suggest that identity is malleable and a strong and multi-culturally sensitive and talented counselor will help their clients create the strongest, most flexible identity possible. If you are actually learning something from Sue, you most likely have been living with too many people that look and think like you - whatever your identity is and I have my doubts that this book nor any other will ever make you multi-culturally competent. If you actually have a chance at being competent, this book will mostly rehash the obvious and waste your time. Sadly, that Bozo that assigned this text is wasting your time and will hopefully be denied tenure and have to get a real job. Especially if they are weak-minded enough to present this pap, this tripe as 'factual'. It really, really does deserve O stars. And yes, I would LOVE to hear from your lawyers, Sue and Kiselica, if you find this libel. | ||
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Counseling for diverse cultures This book is long overdue, at last some cultural sensitivity to counseling and the issues around dealing with other world views. Pathology does have a cultural element, but not all perspectives are considered pathology. Being an individualist in an American society is a disability if you have no experience or sensitivity to persons who think in a collective way. For a Hispanic or Native American, the idea of the community has a deeper value to be considered as far as counseling is concerned. This book examines the cross sections of diversity and explores the limitation of counselors and the need for cultural education for counselors. I had to read this as a textbook, but I like the book. I think that is it certainly time to research these perspectives in order to become better counselors for the culturally diverse population at hand. | ||
White, middle-class Americans: for a challenge, read this. Definitely challenging at times, as Sue contends that all whites have some form of embodied racism within (perhaps it is all Americans, although this has been debated in our class -- whether all whites do, whether one needs to be white to be racist, etc.). Definitely a good book to work through one's own culturally-bound views and perceptions that may or may not be conscious. This is definitely an important concept for any practitioner, and especially any practitioner who is white and does not believe there is racism in the world any longer. | ||