Culturally alert counseling

Resource Information

The work Culturally alert counseling represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Culturally alert counseling

Statement of responsibility

produced, directed & co-written by Garrett J. McAuliffe

Contributor

• Sage Publications
• McAuliffe, Garrett

Author

• McAuliffe, Garrett

Director

• McAuliffe, Garrett

Producer

• McAuliffe, Garrett

Subject

• Conservatism -- Religious aspects
• Counselors -- Training
• Nonfiction films
• Instructional films
• Educational films
• Instructional films
• Counseling psychology
• DVD-Video discs
• Gay teenagers -- Counseling of
• Fundamentalists -- Counseling of
• Asian Americans -- Counseling of
• Lesbian teenagers -- Counseling of
• Counseling -- Religious aspects
• Video recordings
• African Americans -- Counseling of
• Hispanic Americans -- Counseling of
• Christians -- Counseling of
• Asians -- Counseling of
• Cross-cultural counseling

Genre

• Instructional films
• Nonfiction films
• Educational films
• DVD-Video discs
• Video recordings

Language

eng

Summary

• "Guided, explicit demonstrations of how to seamlessly infuse culture into counseling sessions ... Eight sessions are conducted with narrative introductions to the central issues for working with each group. Each session has been scripted to highlight the most common topics in each area. Subtitles teach viewers the skills being used as well as the cultural issues that clients are exhibiting"--Container
• "The DVDs are guided, explicit demonstrations of how to seamlessly infuse culture into counseling sessions. This is a first-of-its-kind product, one that will be needed as the counseling field embraces all clients from all groups in our society. Above all fields, counseling and psychotherapy require modeling of sessions and skills in realistic settings. Here, eight sessions are conducted with narrative introductions to the central issues for working with each group. Each session has been scripted to highlight the most common topics in each area"--Set box
• [pt. 1]. A carefully illustrated counseling session, which brings out many issues common for working with African American clients. A white male counselor works with an African American professional woman on her adjustment to a new workplace and the challenges of being an ethnic minority
• [pt. 2]. In this session a White counselor helps an East Asian client deal with family and relationship dilemmas, highlighting issues that many Asian American clients face, such as duty to one's family, conforminty to group norms, obedience to parents, deference to authorities and maintenance of interpersonal harmony
• [pt. 3]. A White female counselor works with a Latino/Latina couple with alertness to some common cultural issues such as familismo, respeto, simpatia, and defined gender roles
• [pt. 4]. For many clients, religion is a central aspect of their lives. In this session, a counselor helps a conservative Christian woman incorporate her faith into the solution to her family and relationship dilemma
• [pt. 5]. Sensitive, proactive counseling work with members of sexual minorities cannot be overemphasized. In these sessions counselors gently help clients become themselves at two stages in the coming-out process: coming out to self and coming out to others
• [pt. 6]. More than 20 key practices for incorporating culture into counseling work are illustrated. Accessibility, assessment, and intervention are covered

Cataloging source

MNF

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

For professionals in practice, students and instructors

Runtime

236

Technique

live action