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Students, beginning and seasoned mental health professionals will be better prepared for diversity practice by this accessible, timely, provocative, and critical work, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, Fifth Edition. Author Tracy Robinson-Wood demonstrates, through both the time honored tradition of storytelling and clinically-focused case studies, the process of patient and therapist transformation. This insightful, practical resource offers behavioral health professionals a nuanced view of diversity beyond race, culture, and ethnicity to include and interrogate intersectionality among race, culture, gender, sexuality, age, class, nationality, religion, and disability. With a keen focus on quality patient care, this important text aims to help professionals better serve patients across sources of diversity. Readers will recognize their roles and responsibilities as social justice agents of change, while identifying the ways in which dominant cultural beliefs and values furnish and perpetuate clients' feelings of stuckness and inadequacy, in both the therapeutic alliance and within the larger society. This remarkable text reveres the lifelong commitment of using knowledge and skills as power for good to make a meaningful difference in people's lives.

The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling

Part I: The Mental Health Professional and Diversity

Chapter 1: You, The Mental Health Professional, and Diversity in Mental Health Practice

The Mental Health Profession

Chapter 2: Multicultural Competencies: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes

Multicultural Competencies

Competency Guidelines, Benchmarks, and Standards

Diversity Training

Assessment and Research

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 3: Multiple Identities

Multicultural Counseling and Psychology Defined

Diversity: An Overview

A B C Dimensions

Conceptualization of the Self

Images of Diversity

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 4: Identities as Status

Identities as Status: The Contextual and Social Construction of Differences Model

Assumptions of Hierarchical Socialization Patterns

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Part II: Our People

Chapter 5: People of Native American and Alaskan Native Descent

History

Geography and Demography

Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues

Acculturation

Cultural Philosophies and Values

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 6: People of Spanish and Latino Descent

The Spanish, Portuguese, Indians, Asians, and Africans

Migratory Patterns from Mexico

Demography

Geography

Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues

Migration and Acculturation

Cultural Orientation and Values

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 7: People of African Descent

History, 500-1500 AD

The Slave Trade

Resistance to Slavery

Demographic Trends

Social, Psychological, and Physiological Health Issues

Cultural Orientation and Values

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 8: People of Asian Descent, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders

History

Demography

Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues

Acculturation and Experiences in America

Cultural Orientation and Values

Asian American Identity Development

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 9: People of the Middle East and Arab Americans

The Africans, Asians, Europeans, and Arabs

Muslims and Arabs: Differences and Similarities

Migratory Patterns from the Middle East

Demography

U.S. Census Bureau Classification as White

Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues

Cultural Orientation and Values

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 10: People of European Descent

History and Immigration

Geography and Demography

Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues

The Meaning of Whiteness

White Racial Identity Development

White Privilege and Colorblindness

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 11: People of Jewish Descent

History of Migragration and Accultration

Defining Judaism

The Meaning of Being Jewsih

Shoah (The Holocaust)

Demography

Social, Psychological, and Physical Health Issues

Cultural Orientation and Values

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Part III: Converging Identities

Chapter 12: Converging Race

The Social Construction of Race

Race and Science

Origins of Racial Groups

On Race, Ethnicity, and Difference

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 13: Converging Biracial and Multicultural Identities

Definitions

Demography

The One-Drop Rule

The Fluidity of Race

Racial Socialization

Multiracial and Biracial Identity Development

Research and Biracial and Multiracial Populations

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 14: Converging Gender

Gender Definitions

Gender and Biology

The Social Construction of Gender

Undoing Gender

Sex and Gender Roles

Gender and Emotion

Gender and the Body

Gender and Experiences in Therapy

Gender Identity Models

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 15: Converging Sexuality

Definitions and Terminology

Narrative Questions

The Importance of a Focus on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Mental Health Diversity

Developmental Processes

Counseling LGBT Populations of Color

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 16: Converging Socioeconomic Class

The Invisibility of Class as a Variable in Counseling

The Intersection of Class

Class: An Identity Construct

Middle-Class Bias and Counselor Training

The Fluidity of Class

Middle-Class Bias and Ethical Standards

Classism

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 17: Converging Disability

Understanding Disability

Disabilities and Children in Schools

Adults and Disabilities

Veterans

Disability Studies

The Social Construction of Disability

Alzheimers

Perfection, Beauty, and the Able Body

Implications for Counselors and Psychologists

Case Study

Chapter 18: Converging Spirituality

Spirituality and Religion Defined

Spirituality, Therapy, and Cultural Considerations

Diverse Healing Strategies

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study

Chapter 19: Converging Social Justice in Diversity Practice

Social Justice and Empowerment

Power and Powerlessness

Social Justice and the Therapeutic Process

Feminist Therapy and Social Justice

Patient Navigation: Social Justice Example

Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Case Study