This invaluable book outlines skills essential to the helping process (such as building relationships and facilitating client self-exploration), deals with pragmatic concerns (such as keeping up with research and documenting your work), and focuses on specific areas (such as a brief counseling and cross-cultural counseling). Just as most writers would not be without Strunk and White's now classic The Elements of Style, most counselors, whatever their...

The purpose of this research is to identify and stimulate understanding of the changing implications surrounding multicultural awareness within the mental health profession. Specific attention within this research is directed at the evolution of multicultural counseling, new multicultural models, training, and paradigms shifts.