Counseling Across Cultures
Seventh Edition
Learning Objectives
Primary Objective
To assist mental health practitioners in understanding and providing effective multicultural counseling and psychotherapy with refugees and migrants by providing a model of treatment and psychotherapy (the multiphase model of psychotherapy, social justice, and human rights)
Secondary Objectives
To provide an understanding of the sociopolitical and historical contexts of mental health for refugees and migrants
To promote awareness and understanding of the impacts of premigration trauma on postmigration adjustment
To sensitize mental health practitioners regarding acculturation, cultural belief systems, and associated adjustment issues that affect the psychological well-being of refugees and migrants