Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice

Hays’s popular bestseller invites readers to move beyond a one-dimensional view of identity to a nuanced understanding of the overlapping cultural influences that affect us all.

This fourth edition's new chapters feature culturally adapted cognitive behavioral tools and techniques, and trauma due to racism and other systemic forms of oppression. It remains richly illustrated with case material, with many new vignettes and examples demonstrating the ADDRESSING framework in both counseling and clinical practice. Other new material includes updated discussion of gender identity, with attention to clinically relevant research regarding transgender and nonbinary people, more on people with disabilities (the largest minority group in the U.S.), the latest terminology and language regarding diverse minority groups, and a special section on social justice and its relationship to therapeutic practice.

In an increasingly diverse society, mental health providers must be able to work effectively with a wide variety of clients. The ADDRESSING framework shows clinicians and counselors how to take into account age and generational influences, developmental or other disability, religion and spirituality, ethnic and racial identity, Indigenous heritage, national origin, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and gender. Each chapter includes Key Ideas summaries and practice exercises, making this book ideal for personal, educational, or group use.

Acknowledgments

I. Becoming a Culturally Responsive Therapist

• Diversity, Complexity, and Intersectionality
• Essential Knowledge and Qualities
• Your Cultural Self-Assessment

II. Making Meaningful Connections

• That’s Not What I Meant: Finding the Right Words
• Intersectionality: The Complexities of Identity
• Creating a Positive Therapeutic Alliance

III. Sorting Things Out

• Conducting a Culturally Responsive Assessment
• Understanding Trauma
• Culturally Responsive Testing
• Making a Culturally Responsive Diagnosis

IV. Beyond the Treatment Manuals

• Culturally Responsive Therapy: An Integrative Approach
• Culturally Adapted Tools and Techniques
• Indigenous, Creative, Mindfulness, and Social Justice Interventions
• Pulling It All Together: A Complex Case
• Conclusion

References
Index
About the Author
 

Pamela A. Hays, PhD, received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii and completed a National Institute of Mental Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.

She was on the graduate psychology faculty of Antioch University in Seattle, Washington, for 11 years, and in 2000, returned to her hometown on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, where she has worked in community mental health for the Kenaitze Tribe's Dena'ina Wellness Center, in private practice, and served on the Board of the Alaska State Psychological Association.

Her research has included work with Tunisian women in North Africa and with Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian people in the U.S.

She is the author of Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit and Creating Well-Being: Four Steps to a Happier, Healthier Life; coeditor of the book Culturally Responsive Cognitive–Behavioral Therapy: Assessment, Practice, and Supervision; and coauthor of the book (with video series) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Techniques and Strategies.

Dr. Hays's work with clients is featured in several APA-produced DVDs, and she provides consultation and teaches workshops internationally.

Visit her website for more information on Dr. Hays's clinical practice, publications, videos, and workshops.

The comprehensive and practical information in this excellent new fourth edition lights a path toward the lifelong development of cultural competence.
—Lillian Comas-Díaz, PhD, Author of Multicultural Care: A Clinician’s Guide to Cultural Competence

Dr. Hays artfully weaves together critical insights that go beyond stereotyping to improve practitioner understanding of the complexity of diversity and intersectionality, how to make meaningful connections and strengthen the working alliance, and how to increase cultural responsiveness in both treatment and assessment.
—Wei-Chin Hwang, PhD, Professor of Psychological Science, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, and independent practice

Yet again, Dr. Pamela Hays has delivered excellence. This new edition gives mental health providers a comprehensive, user-friendly guide for providing inclusive clinical assessment and interventions to people who identify with diverse identities. Their voices and cultural contexts are highlighted through clinical examples in this book in addition to the most recent psychological research—making this an ideal resource for students, trainees, and early career professionals.
—Linda R. Mona, PhD, licensed clinical psychologist, Long Beach, CA

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Welcome to the instructor resources for Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice: An Intersectional Approach, Fourth Edition. This page contains general teaching resources, including PowerPoint lecture slides for each chapter, a complete test bank with answer key, materials for understanding the ADDRESSING framework, and quiz questions for Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy. These resources are intended for your personal teaching use only. If you reprint or adapt them for publication, permission is required from the publisher, or an alternate copyright holder where indicated. All material is © 2022 American Psychological Association, unless otherwise noted.

• PowerPoint Lecture Slides (PPTX | PDF)
• Test Bank (Microsoft Word | PDF)
• Understanding the ADDRESSING Framework (PPTX, 204KB)
• Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy Quiz (DOC, 34KB)

Students can access downloadable chapter summaries and practice multiple-choice quizzes for study and review.

• Chapter summaries (PDF | Microsoft Word)
  This file contains a brief summary of each chapter, highlighting key topics covered throughout Addressing Cultural Complexities in Counseling and Clinical Practice, Fourth Edition.
  
• Practice quizzes (PDF | Microsoft Word)
  Included are multiple-choice, true-false, and short answer quizzes for each chapter to help students test their knowledge about key concepts and prepare for quizzes and tests assigned by their instructors.
• Answer key (PDF | Microsoft Word)
  A separate answer key is provided for self-testing.