Description

Eduardo Duran–a psychologist working in Indian country–draws on his own clinical experience to provide guidance to counselors working with Native Peoples. Translating theory into actual day-to-day practice, Duran presents case materials that illustrate effective intervention strategies for prevalent problems, including substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, and internalized oppression. Offering a culture-specific approach that has profound implications for all counseling and therapy, this groundbreaking volume:

• Provides invaluable concepts and strategies that can be applied directly to practice.
• Outlines very different ways of serving American Indian clients, translating Western metaphor into Indigenous ideas that make sense to Native People.
• Presents a model in which patients have a relationship with the problems they are having, whether these are physical, mental, or spiritual.
• Includes a section in each chapter to help non-American Indian counselors generalize the concepts presented to use in their own practice in culturally sensitive ways.

Author: Duran, Eduardo, Editor: Ivey, Allen E, Editor: Sue, Derald Wing

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 807746894
Language: English
Pages: 148