Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide to Intentional Intervention
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Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy, Second Edition examines the dynamics and effects of racism in counseling with an emphasis on the insidiousness of unintentional racism.. The Second Edition provides a new section on the policies and practices of agencies and other institutions in the mental health system unintentionally resulting in service disparities. Macro-system and micro-system interventions are proposed to overcome these disparities.
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Ridley teaches that counselors should be aware of, and sensitive to, cultural or ethnic issues, when aiding their clients. In part because, at least for American counselors, the diversity of the American populace is likely to cause them to have a diverse caseload.
Many ways are suggested for help counselors. One perhaps a propos method is for a counselor to herself seek counsel. This congruency or professional self awareness may be a excellent way for her to not later project her issues onto her clients.
In terms of client diversity, examples are given that counselors should be careful about generalising from the ethnic of a client. For example, the fact that a client is Asian might not mean that she had much in common with another Asian client. The sheer national and cultural diversity in Asia means that stereotyping can be fraught with errors.
Rating: 4 / 5
Ridley does an brilliant job of opening up issues regarding cultural competency in the mental health services professions. But, even as the examples given do illustrate the problems as they now exist, I found several of the “how to” examples of interaction rather condescending. Still, overall, the book is a fantastic entry into just how and why the mental health field has not served our culturally-diverse populations in the past and how to better serve them in the future.
Rating: 4 / 5