The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

Multiple Identities in Counseling

Tracy Lynn Robinson-Wood

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781506305776
• Edition: 5
• Topic: Éducation
• Subtopic: Éducation et orientation

Students, beginning and seasoned mental health professionals will be better prepared for diversity practice by this accessible, timely, provocative, and critical work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, Fifth Edition. Author Tracy Robinson-Wood demonstrates, through both the time honored tradition of storytelling and clinically-focused case studies, the process of patient and therapist transformation. This insightful, practical resource offers behavioral health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability. With a keen focus on quality patient care, this important text aims to help professionals better serve patients across sources of diversity. Readers will recognize their roles and responsibilities as social justice agents of change, while identifying the ways in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate clients' feelings of stuckness and inadequacy, in both the therapeutic alliance and within the larger society. This remarkable text reveres the lifelong commitment of using knowledge and skills as power for good to make a meaningful difference in people?s lives.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Publisher Note
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Part I The Mental Health Professional and Diversity
• 1 You, the Mental Health Professional, and Diversity in Mental Health Practice
• 2 Multicultural Competencies: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
• 3 Multiple Identities Defined
• 4 Identities as Status
• Part II Our People
• 5 People of Native American and Alaskan Native Descent
• 6 People of Spanish and Latino Descent
• 7 People of African Descent
• 8 People of Asian Descent, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
• 9 People of the Middle East and Arab Descent
• 10 People of European Descent
• 11 People of Jewish Descent
• PART III Converging Identities
• 12 Converging Race
• 13 Converging Biracial and Multiracial Identities
• 14 Converging Gender
• 15 Converging Sexuality
• 16 Converging Socioeconomic Class
• 17 Converging Disability
• 18 Converging Spirituality
• 19 Converging Social Justice in Diversity Practice
• Epilogue
• References and Suggested Readings
• Index