This book provides insight into the unique challenges facing Indian and South Asian immigrants in the West—particularly in the United States. It explores the “baggage” they carry; their expectations versus the realities of negotiating a new cultural, social, religious, and economic milieu; nostalgia and idealization of the past; and the hybridity of existence. Within this context, the author discusses factors which often contribute to intergenerational family conflict among this population. Jacob asserts that this conflict is largely a product of differences in cultural values and identity, acculturation stress, and the experience of marginality. After analyzing and interpreting empirical data collected from two hundred families, he proposes the “Praxis-Reflection-Action” (PRA) Model: a five-stage therapeutic model and the first pastoral psychotherapeutic model developed for the Asian Indians living in the West.

This volume of Handbook of Counseling Women brings together in one place the historical context and current theories of, research on, and the issues involved in the practice of counselling women. Topics covered include the development during adulthood, balancing work and family, pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum and women in intimate relationships.

This book brings a psychological perspective to the often overlooked and understudied topic of women's experiences of migration, covering topics such as memory, place, language, race, social class, work, violence, motherhood, and intergenerational impact of migration.

A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counselling In a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, abilities and religious backgrounds. Bringing Canadian perspectives to the field of multicultural counselling, this collection provides practical approaches to counselling in Indigenous, Asian, Black Canadian, Hispanic, South Asian and LGBTQ2+ communities, among others, along with advice for treating migrant and refugee clients. The third edition of Diversity, Culture and Counselling addresses crucial issues such as systemic racism, immigration policy, climate change, and discriminatory policies, reflecting the many changes that have arisen in Canada since the publication of the second edition. Along with an all-new chapter on counselling during a national crisis, each chapter has been revised to reflect the current state of diversity in Canadian counselling with contributors from a range of backgrounds.

This insightful volume presents important new findings about parenting and parent-child relationships in ethnic and racial minority immigrant families. Prominent scholars in diverse fields focus on families from a wide range of ethnicities settling in Canada, China, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States. Each chapter discusses parenting and parent-child relationships in a broader cultural context, presenting within-group and cross-cultural data that provide readers with a rich understanding of parental values, beliefs, and practices that influence children’s developmental outcomes in a new country. For example, topics of investigation include cultural variation in the role of fathers, parenting of young children across cultures, the socialization of academic and emotional development, as well as the interrelationships among stress, acculturation processes, and parent-child relationship dynamics. This timely reference: • explores immigration and families from a global, multidisciplinary perspective; • focuses on immigrant children and youth in the family context;• challenges long-held assumptions about parenting and immigrant families;• bridges the knowledge gap between immigrant and non-immigrant family studies;• describes innovative methodologies for studying immigrant family relationships; and• establishes the relevance of these data to the wider family literature. Parental Roles and Relationships in Immigrant Families is not only useful to researchers and to family therapists and social workers attending to immigrant families, but also highly informative for persons interested in shaping immigration policy at the local, national, and global levels.

The Routledge International Handbook of Couple and Family Therapy is a comprehensive text that promotes innovative frameworks and interventions in couple and family therapy from a cross cultural perspective. A diverse range of international contributors explore the role that demography, regionality, cultural and political crises, and policy, have on the issues faced by couples and families. Collectively, the chapters articulate unique ideas in conceptualizing the needs of families with international backgrounds, adapting the current models and frameworks to work with this population most effectively. The text is split into four sections covering: personal voices and philosophical perspectives, theory and models, specific applications with international populations, and emerging perspectives. This handbook is essential for individual practitioners, researchers, psychotherapists, and related mental health professionals, as well as academics with an interest in working with couples and families.

A THOROUGH AND CONTEMPORARY EXPLORATION OF ISSUES FUNDAMENTAL TO MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCY Handbook of Multicultural Counseling Competencies draws together an expert group of contributors who provide a wide range of viewpoints and personal experiences to explore the identification and development of specific competencies necessary to work effectively with an increasingly diverse population. Beginning with a Foreword by Derald Wing Sue, this unique handbook offers a broad, comprehensive view of multiculturalism that is inclusive and reflective. The coverage in this important book lies beyond the scope of traditionally defined multiculturalism, with discussion of historically overlooked groups that have experienced prejudice and bias because of their size, social class, age, language, disability, or sexual orientation. This book provides readers with: Practical cases and examples to enhance skill development, promote critical thinking, and increase awareness A cross-section of diversity characteristics and best practice guidelines Examination of detailed, developmentally relevant competency categories Resources and exercises designed for practitioners at various levels of experience and expertise A forum for debate, discussion, and growth Designed to help readers enhance general multicultural competency and their ability to provide services to the populations specifically described, this thought-provoking text will prove useful in facilitating ongoing dialogues about multicultural competence in all its variations.

Intended to benefit the entire counseling community, this guidebook demonstrates current multicultural competencies and successful delivery of services across the various professional counseling disciplines. Leading authorities offer concrete direction for effective multicultural counseling and reflect on what they have found to be the best practices in their specialty area. Chapters include: (1) "Experiential Training in Multicultural Counseling" (G. Roysircar, D.R. Webster, J. Germer, J. Palensky, E. Lynne, G.R. Campbell, Y. Yang, J. Liu, and J. Blodgett-McDeavitt); (2) "Multicultural Competency Interventions for Building Positive Racial Identity in White Counselor Trainees" (D.S. Sandhu and J. Looby); (3) "'Walking the Talk': Simulations in Multicultural Training" (P.B. Pedersen); (4) "Engaging Students in the Quest for Competence in Multiculturalism" (A.L. Santiago-Rivera and M. Moody); (5) "Cultural Considerations in Counselor Training and Supervision" (M. Faubert and D.C. Locke); (6) "Women of Color and Substance Abuse" (O. Madison-Colmore and J.L. Moore, III); (7) "Multicultural Issues in Assessment" (R.M.D. Aviles); (8) "The Power of Context: Counseling South Asians within a Family Context" (A.G. Inman and N. Tewari); (9) "Deconstructing Black Gay Shame" (R. McLean); (10) "Use of Narratives, Metaphor, and Relationship in the Assessment and Treatment of a Sexually Reactive Native American Youth" (L.L. Frey); (11) "Multicultural Competencies and Group Work" (T.A.A. Portman); (12) "Culture-Centered Counseling from an Existential Perspective" (M.P. Evans and A. Valdez); (13) "Including Spirituality in Multicultural Counseling" (K.M. Evans); (14) "Applying Multicultural Competencies in the School Setting: Sexual Identity of an African American Adolescent" (C.C. Hogan); (15) "Culturally Diverse Clients in Employment Counseling" (C. Rooney and W. Liu); (16) "Multiculturalism in Cyberspace" (M.D. Hawkins); (17) "Against the Odds: Successfully Implementing Multicultural Counseling Competencies in a Counseling Center on a Predominantly White Campus" (M.A. Fukuyama and E. Delgado-Romero); (18) "Transforming College Campuses: Implications of the Multicultural Competencies Guidelines" (K.K. Kwan and D.J. Taub); (19) "Applying Multicultural Competencies in Predominantly White Institutions of Higher Education" (P. Arredondo); (20)"Multicultural Practices in Historically Black Institutions" (Q.D. Fowler); (21) "Multiculturalism in the Military" (J. Henderson). (Each chapter contains references.) (GCP).