This book guides you through the complexities of difference and diversity in counselling and psychotherapy practice. It introduces contemporary thinking on the construction of difference, social justice and social identity and applies the theories to therapy practice. By exploring the therapist skills and competencies needed to work ethically and with sensitively, and with reflective exercises and case examples, it will help you to work more confidently and sensitively with your clients.
Rose Cameron is a practitioner and a trainer in counselling and psychotherapy. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Table of Content
SECTION I THE IMPACT AND CONSTRUCTION OF ‘DIFFERENCE’
1 The Psychological Impact of Hostility
2 Race Ethnicity, Nationality and Religion
3 Gender, Sex, Sexuality
4 Class, Age and Disability
5 Reclaiming Identity in the 1970s and 1980s
6 Contemporary Identities
SECTION II BRIDGES AND BARRIERS TO THERAPEUTIC WORK
7 Cultural Arrogance
8 Cultural Humility
9 Demonising and Romanticising the ‘Other’
10 Power and Prejudice
11 Power and Privilege
12 Challenges to Communication
About the author
Rose Cameron is a practitioner and a trainer in counselling and psychotherapy. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
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