Counselling and Therapeutic Interventions with Multicultural Populations in the West

International Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-21569-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Texts in Counselling and Psychotherapy

This textbook is an effort to bring together the current practices, values, attitudes and beliefs about counselling and therapeutic interventions in multicultural populations in Western countries. Although there has been an increased effort to understand the role of culture in counselling practice and therapeutic interventions, there is a dearth of research/ literature on multicultural populations outside the United States. To redress this, this book compares counselling and therapeutic models and practice with multicultural populations across different
Western countries, highlighting the issues and challenges of therapeutic approaches and counselling theory and practice with minorities and sometimes governmental/political considerations in these countries. It explores the way forward regarding service delivery for the mental health of minorities in Western countries and the counselling and therapy they receive. The book is unique as it serves to share knowledge so that insights drawn from one country can be shared across all Western countries, as well as across the globe.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Lena

Banks, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction - Lena Robinson.- Chapter 2. Cross-Cultural Counselling Competencies: Are they a necessary and sufficient consideration for professional practice and sufficiently endorsed by major British counselling and therapy professional organisations? - Nicholas Banks.- Chapter 3. From Multicultural to Cross-Cultural Counseling in 21st Century America: An Existential Perspective - Andre R. Marseille.- Chapter4. Psychosocial care and psychotherapy for migrants and refugees in Germany - Annika Kleinschmitt and Andreas Beelmann.- Chapter 5. Mental health and counselling approaches with ethnoculturally and linguistically diverse (ELD) populations in Australia - Lena Robinson, Rosie Rooney, Bernadette Wright, Maryanne McDevitt, Jacob Peckover and Rachel Jafari.- Chapter 6. Intercultural counselling in Denmark - Rashmi Singla and Maria Ferrero.- Chapter 7. The Evolution of Cross-Cultural Counseling in the United States: An Historical Perspective - Courtland C. Lee and Marja Humphrey.- Chapter 8. Counselling and Therapeutic Approaches in Multicultural populations: Finnish perspectives - Saija-Liisa Kankaanpää and Antti Klemettilä.- Chapter 9. Intercultural counselling in secondary schools in Spain. The role of culture in the emotional wellbeing and inclusion of immigrant students - Inmaculada González-Falcón, José Manuel Coronel-Llamas, Mª Pilar García-Rodríguez and Inmaculada Gómez-Hurtado.- Chapter 10. Intercultural Counselling in Europe - Agostino Portera, Marta Milani, and John Carey.- Chapter 11. Decolonizing Models of Cultural and Social Justice Responsiveness for Optimal Counselling with Newcomers in Canada - Anusha Kassan.- Chapter 12. Counselling and therapeutic interventions in multicultural populations: Concluding and discussion chapter - Nicholas Banks.

Über Autor(innen)

Lena Robinson was Professor of Social Work at the University of the West of Scotland and has been a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Social Work at the University of Birmingham, UK.. She has researched and published widely in the field of race, ethnicity, culture, Psychology and social work practice. Robinson has conducted studies on the adaptation and integration of Muslim youth in Western societies. Her recent publications include ‘Radicalisation, extremism and social work practice: Minority Muslim youth in the West’, Routledge 2022 and ‘Crosscultural child development for social workers’, Palgrave/Macmillan. Her earlier publications include Psychology for social workers: Black perspectives, Routledge/
Taylor &. Francis, 2012).
Nicholas Banks has a forensic private practice with international connections in Africa and the Middle East. He has been a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, UK. He was a Lecturer in Social Work (psychology, child development and communicating with children) at the University of Birmingham, UK and a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Nottingham, UK (counselling and special educational needs). He is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist. Dr Banks has worked as an Educational Psychologist. He has research and publication interests in attachment, fostering and adoption, parenting skills, abuse issues, substance abuse related to parenting, and black children and families, issues of identity and counselling and psychotherapy, special educational needs and autism. He published the first evidence based British book on cross-cultural counselling (Avebury Publishers) in 1999.