Description
| Product ID: | 9781506305752 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender |
| Subtitle: | Multiple Identities in Counseling |
| Authors: | Author: Tracy Lynn Robinson-Wood |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Subjects: | Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies, gender groups, Ethnic studies, Social counselling and advice services, Psychotherapy, Ethnic studies, Counselling & advice services, Psychotherapy |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This practical resource offers behavioural 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Publisher Name: | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-05-05 |
