Miguel E. Gallardo & Christine Jean Yeh 
Culturally Adaptive Counseling Skills [EPUB ebook] 
Demonstrations of Evidence-Based Practices

A key supplement for courses on multicultural counseling, this book is a practical volume that will help faculty and students see demonstrations of
multicultural counseling in practice. The text covers evidence-based practices for working with five major ethnic groups, while weaving in other factors such as gender, disability, sexuality, and more. Each chapter has two case studies by an invited expert who also provides commentary and lessons drawing upon each case.

Table of Content

Foreword – J. Manuel Casas

1. Introduction and Overview – Authors

Part I – African Centered Applications of the SISM

2. Delivering Culturally Competent Therapeutic Services to African American Clients – Thomas A. Parham

3. Case Illustration: Reflections on the Culturally Adaptive Model of Counseling for Persons of African Descent – Cheryl Tawede Grills

4. Case Illustration: Exploring African American Case with the AA-SISM – Anderson J. Franklin

Part II – Sociocultural Specific Therapeutic Skills for Latina/os: Expanding Our Evidence-Based Practice Perspectives

5. Therapists as Cultural Architects and Systemic Advocates – Miguel E. Gallardo

6. Case Illustration: Evidence-based Practice with Latina/o Adolescents and Families – I. David Acevedo-Polakovich, Ph D & Cheryl Gering, MA

7. Case Illustration: Implementation and Application of Latina/o Values in Practice – Susana O. Salgado

Part III – Culturally Adapted Counseling Skills for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

8. Working with Asian American and Pacific Islander Clients – Christine J. Yeh

9. Case Illustration: Culturally Adaptive Model of Counseling – Nita Tewari & Arpana Inman

10. Case Illustration: A Culturally Adaptive Conceptualization for 1.5 Generation of Southeast Asian Americans – Jorge Wong & Kao Chiu Saechao, M.S.W.

Part IV – North American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: Moving Beyond the Surface Level

11. Working with North American Indian and Alaska Native Clients – Joseph E. Trimble

12. Case Illustration: The Treatment of PTSD with a Laguna Pueblo Woman – Jeff King

13. Case Illustration: The Throw Away Boy: The Case of of an Eastern Woodlands American Indian Adolescent – Gayle Skawennio Morse & Angela M. Enno

Part V – Challenging Misperceptions and Widening the Lens: Middle Eastern Americans

14. Middle Eastern Americans (MEA) in Therapy: An Application of the Skills Identification Stage Model – Maryam Sayyedi, Noha Alshugairi & Metra Azar Salem

15. Case Illustration: The Case of Kian: Application of the MEA-SISM – Maryam Sayyedi, Noha Alshugairi & Metra Azar Salem

16. Case Illustration: The Case of Mena and Ahmad: Application of the MEA-SISM – Maryam Sayyedi, Noha Alshugairi & Metra Azar Salem

Part VI – Where do we go from here: Education, Training, Practice and Research Implications

17. ‘So what should I actually do?’ Developing Skills for Greater Multicultural Competence – Rebecca L. Toporek

18. Multicultural Counseling in a Multitheoretical Context: New Applications for Practice – Jeff E. Harris

19. Ecological and Culturally Responsive Directions for the Skills Identification Stage Model – Yeh et al.

Afterword – Janet Helms

About the author

Thomas A. Parham, Ph.D.: Dr. Thomas A. Parham is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Counseling and Health Services and an adjunct faculty member at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Parham is a Past President and Distinguished Psychologist of the National Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi), a Past President of the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (a division of ACA), and a Fellow in both the American Psychological Association, as well as ACA.