Posted: September 13th, 2017

How might issues of race and culture affect the counseling relationship? Discuss the ways a counselor might address these themes from humanistic perspective.

Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements

1. Define your understanding of race and culture.
2. Explore some of the ways that race and culture could influence the counselling relationship.
3. Discuss how the counsellor could integrate these issues to create a therapeutic alliance. 
Sources:
1. Bar-Joseph, T.L. (2005). The Bridge. Dialogue Across Cultures. Gestalt Institute Press, USA
2. D’Ardenne, P. and Mahtani, A. (1999). Transcultural Counselling in Action (Second Edition). London: Sage
3.Dupont-Joshua, A. (2003). Working Inter-culturally in Counselling Settings. East Sussex: Brunner-Routledge.
4.Eleftheriadou, Z. (1996). Transcultural Counselling. London: Central Book Publishing.
5.Lago, C. and Thompson, J. (1996, 2006). Race, Culture and Counselling. The Ongoing Challenge. Buckingham: Open University Press.
6.Fernbacher, A.S. (2005). Cultural influences and considerations in Gestalt therapy. In Woldt, A.L. and Toman, S.M. (2005). Gestalt Therapy: History, Theory, and Practice, (pp. 117-132). London: Sage
7. LeBeauf, I., Smaby, M., and Maddux, C. (2009). Adapting counselling skills for multicultural and diverse clients. In Waltz, G.R., Bleuer, J.C. and Yep, R.K., Compelling counselling interventions: VISTAS 2009 (pp. 33.42). Alexandia, VA: American Counselling Association