Multicultural Counseling: Responding with Cultural Humility, Empathy, and Advocacy (1st Edition)

By Courtland C. Lee & Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company (2021) · Language: English · ISBN-13: 9780826139528

Multicultural Counseling: Responding with Cultural Humility, Empathy, and Advocacy offers a practical and reflective framework for counselors and therapists to effectively engage with clients from diverse cultural, racial, and social backgrounds. This resource emphasizes cultural humility as a lifelong learning process, combined with the clinical skills of empathy and the professional responsibility of advocacy.

The 1st edition explores the intersection of identity, systemic inequities, and mental health, while providing tools to develop self-awareness, assess cultural factors in clinical work, and apply advocacy in professional practice. Case studies, reflective exercises, and evidence-based practices guide readers in applying multicultural competence in real-world settings.

Essential for counseling students, practicing clinicians, and educators, this book equips mental health professionals to create more equitable, respectful, and effective therapeutic relationships.