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Offering implications for democraticizing psychology on a global scale, this work illustrates how professional training for mental health practictioners is often inadequate on issues pertaining to race and racism. The author shows prime examples in his homeland South Africa, and focuses on how those practices reflect assumptions concerning racial superiority. Also addressed is how therapists may be influenced by prevailing ideologies, unaware of how prejudices translate into discriminatory work practices, and ignorant of the power of their own discriminatory discourses.The author also investigates how positive attitudes by counselors and therapists reflect positions related to racial sensitivity. He proposes a new model for multicultural and multiracial sensitivity training.
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RACIAL SENSITIVITY AND MULTICULTURAL TRAINING
Martin Strous
PRAEGER
RACIAL SENSITIVITY AND MULTICULTURAL TRAINING
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RACIAL SENSITIVITY AND MULTICULTURAL TRAINING Martin Strous
Contributions in Psychology, Number 46 Paul Pedersen, Series Adviser
Westport, Connecticut London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Strous, Martin. Racial sensitivity and multicultural training / Martin Strous. p. cm.—(Contributions in psychology, ISSN 0736–2714 ; no. 46) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–275–98148–7 (alk. paper) 1. Psychiatry—Social aspects—South Africa. 2. Mental health services—Social aspects—South Africa. 3. Racism—South Africa—Psychological aspects. 4. Apartheid—South Africa—Psychological aspects. 5. Cultural psychiatry—South Africa. 6. Ethnopsychology—South Africa. 7. South Africa—Race relations—Psychological aspects. I. Title. II. Series. RC451.S6S776 2003 362.2'042' 0968—dc21 2003053557 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2003 by Martin Strous All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003053557 ISBN: 0–275–98148–7 ISSN: 0736–2714 First published in 2003 Praeger Publishers, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.praeger.com Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
Series Foreword by Paul Pedersen
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Preface
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Part I: Apartheid-Style Psycho