Multicultural Encounters: Cases Narratives from a Counseling Practice

✍ Scribed by Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

• Publisher: Teachers College Pr
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 143
• Series: Multicultural Foundations of Counseling and Psychology 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Counsellors and other mental health professionals are increasingly encountering clients who differ from them in terms of race, culture, and ethnicity. Unfortunately many have not been trained to understand how powerfully culture affects our view of the world. The series on Multicultural Foundations of Counseling and Psychology is an invaluable new resource from Teachers College Press that focuses on multicultural issues in counseling and psychology. The books in this series chart the development of this evolving new field and will help educators, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals learn to balance culture-universal and culture specific approaches to treat a diverse population. This volume uses fascinating therapeutic encounters to help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of their increasingly diverse clientele. Murphy-Shigematsu urges clinicians to look beyond their assumptions and stereotypes to learn their clients' cultures through eliciting key narratives. Keeping the client and therapist center stage, the author shows the complex ways in which their cultural self-narratives interact.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
Series Foreword......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
CHAPTER 1 : Prologue......Page 12
ETHNIC NARRATIVES......Page 14
AN INTEGRATIVE MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING FRAMEWORK......Page 17
COUNSELING AS ART AND NARRATIVE......Page 22
THE REFLEXIVE COUNSELOR......Page 24
WRITING STORIES OF COUNSELING AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 27
CHAPTER 2: The Boy Without a Song......Page 29
BLOOD BROTHERS: FIRST IMPRESSIONS......Page 30
A BOY WITHOUT A SONG: THE LOSS OF JOY......Page 32
A MEETING WITH MOTHER......Page 33
LANGUAGE AND INTIMACY: FACILITATING COMMUNICATION AND TRUST......Page 34
BARING ONE’S SOUL: BREAKING THROUGH THE ICE......Page 36
HIS GAIN IS HER PAIN......Page 39
FINDING VOICE: GAINING INSIGHT......Page 40
SURVIVAL NARRATIVES: CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS OF WHAT’S NORMAL......Page 42
SHARING STORIES......Page 44
GOING TO AMERICA: ESCAPE OR CHALLENGE?......Page 48
USING STORIES TO TEACH: METAPHORS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT......Page 49
FINDING FATHER......Page 52
HIDEO THE ADVENTURER......Page 54
A FINAL HANDSHAKE......Page 56
CHAPTER 3: The Fruit of Our Own Doing......Page 59
LOST IN JAPAN: FINDING ONE’S WAY WITHOUT WORDS......Page 61
FACING THE ANGER: MAINTAINING CONTACT......Page 64
A PARANOID NARRATIVE? IN THE BORDERLAND OF ANXIETY AND PSYCHOSIS......Page 66
MEDIATING AND NEGOTIATING; CULTURAL PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR......Page 70
EMPATHIZING WITH THE HURT AND LOSS......Page 73
ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY IN THE HERE AND NOW......Page 74
AWAKENING TO BITTERSWEET DISCOVERIES......Page 77
CHAPTER 4: The Power in a Name......Page 80
REEVALUATING A WORN-OUT NARRATIVE......Page 83
IS THERE A RIGHT NAME?......Page 86
OUT OF TUNE? APPLYING AMERICAN THEORIES IN JAPAN......Page 88
FACING FURTHER COMPLEXITIES OF IDENTITY......Page 90
INTEGRATING NARRATIVES: ENGAGING IN SELF-DEFINITION......Page 92
CHAPTER 5: The Colors of Blood......Page 96
PURE, MIXED, BLUE, GREEN: CONFRONTING THE POLITICS OF BLOOD......Page 99
ASSISTING THE SEARCH FOR ROOTS AND COMMUNITY......Page 100
STRUGGLING WITH QUESTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY......Page 103
IS IT BETTER TO LET IT BE?......Page 104
TELLING HER BOYFRIEND......Page 105
MORE THAN JUST AN IDENTITY PROBLEM?......Page 108
KEEPING SECRETS......Page 111
CHAPTER 6: Epilogue......Page 114
UNDERSTANDING THE CLIENT’S WORLDVIEW......Page 115
AWARENESS OF OUR OWN WORLDVIEW......Page 120
BALANCING WORLDVIEWS......Page 122
TRAVELERS AND GUIDES......Page 129
References......Page 132
C......Page 138
J......Page 139
P......Page 140
Z......Page 141
About the Author......Page 142