Culturally Alert Counseling: A Comprehensive Introduction

by Garrett McAuliffe

This is the first comprehensive guide to culturally alert counseling, complete with a companion demonstration DVD, that is readable and experiential. Editor Garrett J. McAuliffe expands the traditional "definition" of multicultural counseling from the usual two categories of race and ethnicity to eight categories that race, ethnicity, gender, religion/spirituality, class, and sexual orientation. With case vignettes and interactive activities, students will be informed, moved, and changed by the encounters with culture that lie in these pages.

688 pages, Paperback

First published August 17, 2007

Reviews

[Rod White · Rating 3 out of 5]

I probably should not give this book such a low rating. For what it is, I think it is well done. I just don't like what it is. In the name of awareness and advocacy, the authors fall into the typical postmodern trap of denigrating everything but what is seen from their deconstructive viewpoint. Especially in the case of this book, the cultural alertness is mainly a "white" occupation. I was a "minority" in a couple of ways the book did not acknowledge, and actually considered wrong -- like having faith in Jesus. Santeria, was mentioned a a good alternative approach to healing, but not prayer -- that would have been too Christian, which must be deconstructed. I did learn some good things along the way, but my resistance to the authors' studious godlessness was tiring -- especially since I was given the book by my announcedly Christian teacher who was perpetrating the mindset.

[Anita · Rating 3 out of 5]

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