Counseling Diverse Populations [Paperback]

Donald R Atkinson (Author), Gail Hackett (Author)

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Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 2 edition (Aug 1 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0697252809
ISBN-13: 978-0697252807
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 408 g

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This book addresses diversity counseling in an unique format that combines four non-ethnic groups: women, gays, the elderly, and people with disablities. It is a companion to Counseling American Minorities, which focuses on counseling ethnic and racial minorities. The concept of shared experiences of oppression is explained and clarified by identifying characteristics unique to each group. Another crucial topic is psychology's treatment of each group: how psychology as a field has ignored the special needs of minorities in the past, and in some instances, contirbuted to the oppression of women, gays, the elderly and people with disablities. A historical overview of how both psychology and society have treated these four groups puts theories of discrimination in context. An examination of the future directions of psychology addresses the needs of non-ethnic minorities.

About the Author

Donald R. Atkinson is Professor Emeritus in the combined psychology program (Gevirtz Graduate School of Education) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has over 30 years of teaching experience in such courses as Social and Cultural Foundations of Diversity, Multicultural Counseling, Ethics, and Gender Issues. Several reviews of research have identified him as the most prolific researcher ever on multicultural issues, and in 2001 he received the Lifetime Research Award from Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) of the American Psychological Association. He is a Fellow of Divisions 17 and 45 of the APA. Dr. Atkinson earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1970.

Gail Hackett received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. She served on the faculty at the Ohio State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara and is now Professor of Counseling Psychology in the Division of Psychology in Education, and Vice Provost, at Arizona State University. Her research interests include career self-efficacy theory; social cognitive applications to career counseling and development; gender and ethnicity in career counseling and career development; and feminist approaches to counseling and therapy. She has served as associate editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, Vice President for Division E of the American Educational Research Association, and Vice President for Scientific Affairs of Division 17 of the American Psychological Association. She is a Fellow of Divisions 17 and 35 of the American Psychological Association.