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Connecting Across Cultures
The Helper's Toolkit
- Pamela A. Hays - Private Practice Psychologist
Other Titles in:
Cross Cultural Psychology & Diversity | Multi-Cultural Counselling | Multicultural Social Work
Cross Cultural Psychology & Diversity | Multi-Cultural Counselling | Multicultural Social Work
November 2012 | 136 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, Connecting Across Cultures: The Helper's Toolkit provides both students and professionals in health care, education, and social services with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with clients and the community at large. The book offers communication tools to defuse defensive interactions, resolve conflicts constructively, and engage respectfully. Written in a warm, inviting style, the author shares her own mistakes as she explains what not to do and how to do it better. The book provides practical, hands-on strategies for connecting with people across differences related to ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, age, gender, and class. Because cross-cultural relationships involve extra challenges, this book will help you with almost every relationship you encounter.
Introduction
1. Diversity Is Unavoidable, and That's a Good Thing
2. The Starting Place: Knowing Who You Are
3. Creating a New Awareness: What You Didn't Learn in School
4. The Invisible Boundary: How Privilege Affects Your Work and Life
5. But Everyone I Know Agrees with Me: The Influence of Family and Friends
6. That's Not What I Mean: Effective, Respectful Communication
7. Say What? Why Words Matter
8. Making the Connection: The Four Relationship Vitals
9. Keeping the Connection, Even When the Signal Is Faulty
10. When the Golden Rule Isn't Working: Respectful Conflict Resolution
Conclusion
For use in MA level Social and Cultural Diversity class and doctoral level Multicultural Issues in counseling - extremely useful book for stimulating discussion and providing in-class activities to help make concepts relevant to clinical practice.
Counseling Psychology, Argosy University - Seattle
June 2, 2013
There are some very good exercises in this handy book, but it does not lend itself to be used by the entire class.
Sch Of International Service, American University
March 15, 2013
Schedule was changed and am not teaching the course anymore.
Teacher Education Dept, University of Texas - El Paso
March 11, 2013
