Counseling Adults in Transition: Linking Practice with Theory Book

I am a fieldwork supervisor for graduate students and asked what book they were reading in their Gender & Ethnicity class and they named this one. After having taken Gender and Ethnicity in graduate school more than 10 years ago, I was excited to re-visit this material.

I wish that this book had existed when I was a student. It was very thorough and direct in outlining multicultural counseling issues. I especially liked the overviews of various developmental models for racial/ethnic identity. The book also included information about unintentional racism in the counseling process between white counselors and clients of color.

Overall, the tone of the book is action-oriented as indicated by its title, Preventing Prejudice. It does provide specific guidelines for both recognizing prejudice and preventing it. This quality took the book a step further than my graduate school texts.

The book had an extensive list of other resources that I plan to review to maintain my awareness and actions as a counseling professional working with a multi-cultural staff and client population.