Description: This book shows counselors how an understanding of individual differences cultural, ethnic, racial, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and individual can help them use existing strategies to their best advantage. Considers the powerful influences of a client's developmental stage and cultural background. Explores the lives and potential counseling problems of African American, Asian American, European American, Hispanic American, and Native American populations. Considers the impact of the counselor's cultural identity. Explores special perspectives in boxed features -- Gender Perspectives and Gay/Lesbian Perspectives. Uses Up Close and Personal vignettes to portray a child, an adolescent, an adult, and an elderly person within the family, within the culture, and within society. A Focus on Research boxes present studies and scholarly writings on counseling, development, and multicultural populations. Covers professional issues/future directions of the multicultural counseling field.

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