The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy

Colin Lago (ed)
Independent counsellor, trainer, supervisor and consultant

“Colin Lago is to be congratulated on editing an invaluable resource which is both stimulating and disturbing in its implications.”

Brian Thorne, Emeritus Professor of Counselling, University of East Anglia This fascinating book examines recent critical thinking and contemporary research findings in the field of transcultural counselling and psychotherapy. It also explores the effects of different cultural heritages upon potential clients and therapists.

The first half of the book reflects the curriculum, context and content of counselling and psychotherapy training courses, with regards to sensitivity to diversity. It covers key issues such as:

In the second part, the authors give personal accounts that explore the impact of cultural heritage on people who have moved from their countries of origin to 'Western' countries, such as the UK or the USA.

The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy will be of immense value to a wide range of readers, including counselling and therapy practitioners, supervisors, trainees, agency managers and colleagues in other therapy-related services.

Contributors: Aileen Alleyne, Alison Barty, Anita Chakraborty, Divine Charura, Riccardo Draghi-Lorenz, Patricia Eschoe, Farkhondeh Farsimadan, Tiane Corso Graziottin, Delroy Hall, Fiona Hall, Addila Khan, Indu Khurana, Colin Lago, Courtland C. Lee, Yair Maman, Susan McGinnis, Isha Mckenzie-Mavinga, Roy Moodley, Renate Motschnig, Sheila Mudadi-Billings, GoEun Na, Seamus Nash, Bernie Neville, Yuko Nippoda, Ladislav Nykl, Simon du Plock, Judy Ryde, Antony Sigalas, Harbrinder Dhillon Stevens, Patsy Sutherland, Rachel Tribe, Andrea Uphoff, Valerie Watson, Tony Wright, Jin Wu and Neelam Zahid.

October 2011 352pp

978-0-335-23849-1 Paperback £28.99

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Race, Culture and Counselling:
The Ongoing Challenge

Can therapy involving a therapist and client from differing cultural, ethnic and racial origins work?
What are the main barriers to this relationship working well?
What knowledge, skill and attitudes are required by therapists to enhance their work with 'different' clients?

Therapists are inevitably affected by their own backgrounds, experiences and prejudices, which may manifest negatively within therapeutic relationships with clients of different cultural, racial and ethnic backgrounds to their own. This book strives to explore these areas of challenge to successful therapy and to raise awareness of the many facets that may impact upon the relationship.

This substantially revised edition builds upon the foundations laid down in the first edition (which addressed, amongst other subjects, issues of race and power, cultures and their impact upon communication, and a review of the dominant theoretical discourses influencing counselling and psychotherapy and how these might impact upon mixed identity therapeutic relationships,) and includes the following additions:

New chapters by black and white writers working within British, American and Canadian contexts
Updated information on recent changes and challenges in the field
New approaches to the issues of whiteness and power, multiple identities and identity development

Race, Culture and Counselling provides key reading for students, therapists, supervisors and teachers of therapists as well as students and professionals in allied professions such as social work, nursing, medicine and teaching.

Contributors: Courtland Lee; Roy Moodley; Gill Tuckwell; Val Watson

ISBN: 0335216943,
EAN: 9780335216949,
Division: Open University Press
Pub Date: NOV-05

Pages: 304
Edition: 02 - Format: SOFT BACK

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Writing Cures 
(Co-edited with Gillie Bolton, Stephanie Howlett and Jeannie K. Wright.) 

The helping professions are increasingly harnessing the arts and humanities to broaden clinical understandings of the human condition. Yet writing is not widely recognised in counselling and therapy circles. 'Writing Cures' demonstrates the power of expressive and reflective writing in the context of therapy, whether online or text-based, enabling the practitioner to undertake healing writing methods with clients.

Covering a range of contexts such as workplace and student counselling and therapy in medical settings, 'Writing Cures' draws together a comprehensive view of cross-disciplinary research and practitioner reports. An impressive list of contributors covers subjects including:

• Ethical and practical dimensions of online writing.
  
  

• Writing by patients and therapists in cognitive and analytic therapy.
  
  

• Writing for professional development and reflective practice.

Illustrated throughout by examples from clinical experience, 'Writing Cures' will be of benefit to all counsellors, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists who want to use writing confidently with their clients.

Paperback 238 pages (2004) 
Publisher: Brunner-Routledge 
ISBN: 1-58391-912-0

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Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client. (Race and culture in person-centered counselling)
(Co-edited with Roy Moodley and Anissa Talahite) 

This book investigates the issues of race and culture in two of Rogers' own demonstration films: Carl Rogers Counsels an Individual; 'The Right to be Desperate' and 'On Anger and Hurt', in order to generate multiple meanings of how person-centered therapy can be more inclusive of Black and ethnic minority clients. The films show a young Black man in a  state of remission from leukemia in therapy with Carl Rogers. The client feels that he is the victim of the race conflict that society is struggling with - for the client this is worse than the leukemia. It is this narrative, and Rogers' response to it, that the contributors explore.

In seeking the inclusion of issues of race, culture and ethnicity in person-centered therapy, this international collection of scholars, practitioners and researchers across a wide variety of therapeutic approaches and modalities, raises fundamental questions concerning the intersection of race, culture and ethnicity upon the therapeutic process.

Paperback 294 pages (2004) 
Publisher: PCCS Books Ltd 
ISBN: 1-898059-44-6

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Working with International Students.
(2nd.edition With Alison Barty.) (2003) London:UKCOSA

With over 100 experiential training exercises, accompanying resources and training programme templates, this extensive manual is recommended for all those interested in training for the Cross Cultural area. 


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Anti-discriminatory Counselling Practice (Professional Skills for Counsellors S.) 
(Co-edited with Barbara Smith.) 

The aim of Anti-discriminatory Counselling Practice is to increase understanding of the origins of discrimination, oppression and disadvantage and how they impinge on therapeutic relationships. Counselling itself is accused of being discriminatory and largely inaccessible to many groups in society. Being aware of and engaging with these issues is therefore fundamental to the preparation of counsellors and psychotherapists, as it is for other caring professions. Drawing together contributions from leading writers, the book shows how oppression is created not only by overt prejudice, but also by deeply ingrained social, political and cultural processes which involve us all, but of which we are often unaware. These processes allow individuals to become disadvantaged merely on the basis of their gender, race, culture, age, sexuality or ability. Examining these areas of discrimination, the contributors highlight the issues which feature frequently in therapeutic encounters and the need for counsellors to develop their skills as culturally sensitive, reflective practitioners. Anti-discriminatory Counselling Practice is a groundbreaking text and an enlightening introduction to complex issues, which affect all trainees and practitioners in counselling, psychotherapy and other helping professions. 

Paperback 184 pages (December 2002) 
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd 
ISBN: 0761966471 

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Experiences in Relatedness: Groupwork and the Person-centred Approach (Person-centred Approach & Client-centred Therapy Essential Readers) 
(Co-edited with Mhairi MacMillan) 

The editors "bring together a collection of writings by authors who have participated in and with Person Centred groups over a period of thirty years."

Paperback 192 pages (January 30, 1999) 
Publisher: PCCS Books Ltd 
ISBN: 1898059233 

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The Management of Counselling and Psychotherapy Agencies (Professional Skills for Counsellors S.) 
(Co- edited with Duncan Kitchin.)

This text offers guidelines on aspects of knowledge, skill and management expertise required by counselling services. The authors examine the implications of funding, budgeting, staffing issues, location, and furnishing of premises on daily working routines. 

Paperback 160 pages (October 1998) 
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd 
ISBN: 0803979959 

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Personal Tutoring in Action: A Handbook for Staff Who Work with and Support Students 
(Co-written with Geraldine Shipton)

A handbook for staff in colleges and universities offering tutoring and pastoral support to students.

Paperback 80 pages (May 1995) 
Publisher: Sheffield University Counselling Service 
ISBN: 0952558807 


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On Listening and Learning: Student Counselling in Further and Higher Education 
(Co-written with Geraldine Shipton.)

"This book deals with many aspects of the work of counsellors within colleges and universities."

Paperback 118 pages (July 11, 1994) 
Publisher: Central Book Publishing Ltd 
ISBN: 1898458251 

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