Counseling Across Cultures

Seventh Edition

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Counseling Across Cultures Seventh Edition

Edited by

Paul B. Pedersen Syracuse University (Emeritus); University of Hawaii (Visiting); Maastricht

School of Management Walter J. Lonner

Western Washington University (Emeritus) Juris G. Draguns

Pennsylvania State University (Emeritus) Joseph E. Trimble

Western Washington University María R. Scharrón-del Río

Brooklyn College City University of New York

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Contents

Acknowledgments Foreword Dedication Introduction: Learning From Our “Culture Teachers” PART I. ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF CROSS-CULTURAL COUNSELING

1. Toward Effectiveness Through Empathy 2. Counseling Encounters in Multicultural Contexts: An Introduction 3. Assessment of Persons in Cross-Cultural Counseling 4. Multicultural Counseling Foundations: A Synthesis of Research Findings on Selected Topics

PART II. ETHNOCULTURAL CONTEXTS AND CROSS-CULTURAL COUNSELING 5. Counseling North American Indigenous Peoples 6. Counseling Asian Americans: Client and Therapist Variables 7. Counseling Persons of Black African Ancestry 8. Counseling the Latino/a From Guiding Theory to Practice: ¡Adelante! 9. Counseling Arab and Muslim Clients

PART III. COUNSELING ISSUES IN BROADLY DEFINED CULTURAL CATEGORIES 10. Gender, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Privilege Across Cultures 11. Counseling the Marginalized 12. Counseling in Schools: Issues and Practice 13. Reflective Clinical Practice With People of Marginalized Sexual Identities

PART IV. COUNSELING INDIVIDUALS IN TRANSITIONAL, TRAUMATIC, OR EMERGENT SITUATIONS

14. Counseling International Students in the Context of Cross-Cultural Transitions 15. Counseling Immigrants and Refugees 16. Counseling Survivors of Disaster 17. Counseling in the Context of Poverty 18. The Ecology of Acculturation: Implications for Counseling Across Cultures

PART V. PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING IN A SELECTION OF CULTURE-MEDIATED HUMAN CONDITIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES

19. Health Psychology and Cultural Competence 20. Well-Being and Health 21. Family Counseling and Therapy With Diverse Ethnocultural Groups 22. Religion, Spirituality, and Culture-Oriented Counseling 23. Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Health Promotion in Cross-Cultural Counseling 24. Group Dynamics in a Multicultural World

Index About the Editors

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About the Contributors

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Elder Wisdom

An elder Lakota was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, “A fight is going on inside me… it is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.

One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.”

The grandchildren thought about it for a minute, and then one child asked her grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The Elder replied simply, “The one you feed.”

The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic center of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action, organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively—both against other such wholes and against social and natural background—is however incorrigible it may seem to us, a rather peculiar idea within the context of the world’s cultures. (p. 34)

Geertz, C. (1973). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. New York: Basic Books.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its Powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is everywhere,it is within each of us. This is the real Peace, and the others are but reflections of this.

The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which… is within the souls of men. (p. 198)

Black Elk, in Neihardt, J. G. (1961). Black Elk speaks: Being the life story of the holy man of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Conscientization does not consist, therefore, of a simple change of mind about reality, of a change in individual subjectivity that leaves intact the objective context; conscientization supposes a change in people in the process of changing their relationship with the environment, and above all, with others.

True knowledge is essentially bound with transformative social action and involves a change in the relationship between human beings.

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Martín-Baró, I., & Blanco Abarca, A. (1998). Psicología de la liberación. Madrid: Editorial Trotta.

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Acknowledgments

Nearly every academic book ever published has acknowledged individuals who in some way played important roles in the book’s development. In this book we depart from the usual custom and acknowledge those who, on one hand, were important in organizing, editing, and producing the book, as well as those who, on the other hand, played important roles in the lives of the five coeditors. The former can be considered general acknowledgments that we all share. The latter are necessarily different for each of us. Thus we have agreed to contribute individually.

In the general category we want to thank SAGE Publications for the confidence it has shown in us throughout the years. The two key SAGE people with whom we have worked are Kassie Graves, who has been part of this effort for many years, and her assistant, Carrie Baarnes. Although a relative newcomer to SAGE, Carrie was a big help in the latter stages. We were flattered that Claudia Hoffman, SAGE’s director of U.S. book production, pointedly selected Counseling Across Cultures as a book she wanted to usher through its final copyediting and production stages. In characteristic good judgment, Claudia chose Judy Selhorst to be copy editor for the book. It is remarkable how careful and efficient Judy was during the latter part of the process, when it is so important to be complete and precise. Candace Harman and her crew in the graphics department did an excellent job with the cover. Further north, on the campus of Western Washington University, is Genavee Brown. A graduate student in the Department of Psychology and a most promising young scholar, Genavee was “the organizer” in crucial stages. When the book is published, the first copy will go to Paul Pedersen and the second will go to Genavee.

On the personal side, we offer the following highly individualized acknowledgments:

Paul B. Pedersen. I would like to acknowledge and to dedicate my role in the preparation of this book to Anthony J. “Tony” Marsella, professor emeritus of the University of Hawaii. Tony was my prime teacher at so many different levels. He was as comfortable in the village council of a Borneo community as he was, for example, during a World Health Organization committee meeting many years ago, or as he was in his lectures throughout his illustrious career. The classes he taught would frequently end with standing ovations by his students. He originated the awareness, knowledge, and skill model, which became the basis of the measures for competence within the field of multicultural counseling. Many other examples of his influence come to mind. Most important, he has in recent years become a first-class friend and co-traveler in life’s journey. In the metaphor of family, Tony has fathered many children among his students, his colleagues, and his other brothers and sisters. For all that you have given, Tony, I send you my thanks.

Walter J. Lonner. Above all else I want to thank my immediate family, consisting of many people, both living and dead. Among the living are my everything-and-then-some wife, Marilyn, and our three great children (Jay, Alyssa, and Andrea), each of whom has two daughters with terrific spouses. The world had better watch out for those six little dynamos. By name and current age they are Sika (14) and Brenna (11) Lonner, Sophia (11) and Alena (8) Naviaux, and Nina (7) and Sage (4) Howards. I was blessed with great parents and two

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brothers: Terry, the youngest of us, who is a beacon of honor and dependability and a jack-of-all-trades; and George, the oldest. We grew up in beautiful and generous western Montana. George died October 8, 2012,

about midway through the work on this book. George was the family’s Don Quixote, dreaming big things and imagining the impossible. It is he, not I, who should have been a university professor, for he would have dazzled thousands of students with his talent of mixing fact with fantasy. The encouragement and praise that Terry and George and the rest of my family piled upon me, through thick and thin, has always kept me going. I also want to acknowledge the multidimensional influence that an international network of scholars has had on my 50-plus years of trying to understand the nature of culture’s influence on everything we say, think, and do. Part of this network consists of the many talented people, including the current slate of coeditors, who have contributed to one or more of the seven editions of Counseling Across Cultures.

Juris G. Draguns. Throughout the seven editions of Counseling Across Cultures, I have enjoyed marvelous support, encouragement, and understanding from my wife, Marie. We have shared 52 wonderful years, and Marie’s love and empathy have helped me overcome whatever obstacles have stood in my way, sometimes tangible, more often subjective. As I thought about, wrote, and edited Counseling Across Cultures, I would temporally disappear into the book, and Marie was always there to welcome me when I reemerged from its pages. My two children, Julie and George, were young when Counseling Across Cultures first appeared. They grew up as the book evolved through its several transformations, and the two processes intertwined. What has remained constant is our mutual love and my vicarious enjoyment of and pride over Julie’s and George’s families, careers, and achievements. Thinking back on my early years, I gratefully remember my parents, especially my mother, who instilled in me a curiosity and love of learning and protected me from the dangerous world outside our home. It is thanks to her that I survived and was able to work toward the realization of my version of the American Dream. And in the course of the ensuing multiple transitions I benefited from a host of culture teachers who helped me become more empathetic and perhaps more helpful across cultural barriers. They are too numerous to mention, but my sincerest thanks go to them all.

Joseph E. Trimble. I owe Paul Pedersen a special measure of personal gratitude and appreciation. In August 1972 Paul met with me and my wife, Molly, at a lanai in Honolulu. Over a late-morning breakfast he vividly described his new triad theory of counseling training to underscore his strong growing interest in culture and psychological counseling. It was a memorable occasion for the three of us. A few years later, Paul invited me to give a symposium paper on counseling American Indians and later publish a chapter in the first edition of Counseling Across Cultures. Molly was extremely helpful when I wrote that first chapter and continues to be insightful and helpful in almost all of my writing activities. She has a keen eye for detail and a spirited mind for novel concepts and ideas. Throughout the course of each of the Counseling Across Cultures editions our three lovely and talented daughters, Genevieve, Lee Erin, and Casey Ann, have been with me when each edition arrived home for their review and comment, and it has always been a proud moment for me when they read their names in the acknowledgments and commented on it. Also, I am deeply grateful for all of the people who have provided me with guidance, advice, and collaboration on the contents of the various chapters put together for the seven editions. Thank you especially to Candace Fleming, Fred Beauvais, Pamela Jumper Thurman, and John Gonzales.

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María R. Scharrón-del Río. I am very grateful for the love, guidance, and support of mi familia. My mother, Rosarito, and my sister Marilia housed and fed me in Puerto Rico as I was finishing the final editing process for this book. My sister Marichi also assisted me with her commentary during this time, and my father, Rafael, accompanied me on a couple of hour-long mental health escapades to the ocean. I am also grateful to my partner, Yvonne, for her love, support, and understanding, and for providing a home for me in Germany during part of my sabbatical. Many thanks also to my chosen family in New York City—Cody, Mara, Barb, Wayne, Paul, and Flo—who helped in too many ways to count. I owe a special thanks to Joseph Trimble and Guillermo Bernal, who have been outstanding mentors and friends since I was an undergraduate student in the Career Opportunities in Research (NIMH-COR) program at the University of Puerto Rico. I also want to thank Eliza Ada Dragowski for her exceptional work and support in the completion of this book. Finally, my thanks to the wonderful group of people who provided additional guidance on the content of various chapters of the book: Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, Stuart Chen-Hayes, Hollyce Giles, Vic Muñoz, Delida Sánchez, and Avi Skolnik.

Paul B. Pedersen

Walter J. Lonner

Juris G. Draguns

Joseph E. Trimble

María R. Scharrón-del Río

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