Download Author: Ramirez, Manuel, III, Ph.D.

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Family Counseling

The multicultural model of family therapy is an extension of the model used for doing therapy with couples. The focus is on cultural and cognitive styles match and mismatch and how these are related to family alliances and misunderstandings that contribute to conflict. In addition, the model also encourages identification of false expectations of parents based on cultural stereotypes.

The Multicultural Model and Managed Care

This chapter highlights the contributions that the multicultural model can make to the general as well as the client-specific requirements of managed care in completing outpatient request and authorization forms as well as in formulating treatment plans.

Conclusions: Multicultural Psychotherapy

It is my fervent hope that through this book readers will arrive at a greater appreciation of their uniqueness as well as the uniqueness of others. I hope they will appreciate the diversity in themselves and in society as an opportunity for greater self-knowledge and growth.

Multicultural Psychotherapy: An Approach to Individual and Cultural Differences

This book combines theory and applied clinical content as it addresses issues relevant to the general minority experience. Ongoing case examples help the reader to apply theoretical issues to clinical examples. The inclusion of measurement instruments aids in determining baseline and therapy-based changes. (305 pp.)

The Client as Change Agent and Multicultural Ambassador

The principal goal of the fourth and final phase of multicultural therapy is to complete the task of client empowerment. The specific objective of this stage of therapy is to encourage the client to become an active participant in the development of a multicultural society.

Couples Counseling

Therapy is directed at helping the clients to understand mismatch in communication; interpersonal relationships; motivation; and learning/problem-solving, teaching, parenting, supervisory, and counseling styles. Each partner then learns to match the other’s preferred styles and to help one another develop the flexibility in values and cognitive styles that can improve their level of satisfaction within the relationship.

Feeling Different

The people described here have one thing in common: They are in crisis because they feel different from those around them. The feeling of being different is accompanied by feelings of alienation and loneliness, depression, and anxiety. People who feel different feel misunderstood and undervalued. The feeling of being different is typical among members of minority groups.

Emergence of a Psychology of Differentness and Pluralism

The task facing the therapist trying to help a victim of the mismatch syndrome is a challenging one. This task is all the more difficult because mainstream theories and techniques of counseling and psychotherapy often ignore cultural and individual differences.