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Visit sagepub.com to explore our complete catalog and for table of contents information. 13 TEXTBOOKS COUNSELING LGBTI CLIENTS Kevin Alderson, University of Calgary, Canada This comprehensive, practical, easy-to-read guide for emerging and current practitioners, as well as LGBTI individuals, combines theory, research and practice to help readers become effective counselors. Students and clinicians will gain relevant and up-to-date knowledge about LGBTI groups, and will develop the skills needed to work effectively with each subgroup in an empathetic and understanding manner. Additionally, to enhance practitioners' multicultural competency to counsel LGBTI clients and prepare them for practice in an increasingly global landscape, the author explores cultural differences around the world and discusses how LGBTI identities change from region to region. Counseling LGBTI Clients challenges and changes beliefs about and attitudes toward each LGBTI subgroup, while preparing practitioners to provide sensitive, informed, and effective affirmative counseling to this largely misunderstood population. KEY FEATURES • Counseling Considerations feature explores issues specifically relevant to each LGBTI subgroup. • Role-Playing Exercises provide an opportunity to practice in an engag- ing and effective manner, and to evaluate role-play performance. • Challenging Your Attitudes and Be- liefs About this Group feature helps students and clinicians to reflect upon their beliefs, attitudes, and values about a specific LGBTI group. • Recent Research Focused on Other Societies feature explores cross- cultural differences between how LGBTI individuals present their iden- tities in our culture as compared to other cultures. • How Would You Help This Person? feature guides students and clini- cians to reflect on a case and stimu- lates class discussion. • Reflections provide a counseling scenario whereby the reader is asked to imagine that he or she is the client, aimed at assessing the effectiveness of the counselor's intervention. • Chapter on Intersex Individuals (Chapter 10) is included. • Recent Research Focused on Canada section highlights some of the contributions of Canadian researchers. CONTENTS 1. Introduction / 2. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Regarding LGBTI Individuals / 3. Gay Boys and Men / 4. Lesbian Girls and Women / 5. Bisexual Boys and Men / 6. Bisexual Girls and Women / 7. Fetishistic Crossdressing Children and Adults / 8. Transsexual Boys and Transwomen / 9. Transsexual Girls and Transmen / 10. Intersex Children and Adults / 11. Conclusions PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-8718-9 • ©2013 • 344 PAGES • EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH FOR DEVELOPING MULTICULTURAL COUNSELING COMPETENCE Mary L. Fawcett, Winona State University • Kathy M. Evans, University of South Carolina This is the ideal companion text for students preparing for a career in counseling or mental health. Mental health workers- in-training need to learn to work effectively with clients from diverse backgrounds, and this text helps them develop these key skills by providing a ready-made resource of multicultural and diversity activities that instructors can assign to enhance student learning in class. It is applicable to all of the core courses in the Counseling curriculum and it is developmentally designed to help students build multicultural and diversity competencies from the beginning level to an advanced level. KEY FEATURES • Each chapter clearly addresses a core competency in the Multicultural Competency Area. • Low-, middle-, and high-risk activities allow each individual to select any ac- tivity at the level necessary to develop a competency. • Recommendations for further reading embedded within each chapter make it easy to locate specific literature and research related to each multicultural competency area. • Intervention Strategy Exercises bring the chapter content to a practical level in terms of counseling interventions. • Every activity has a list of relevant and appropriate CACREP core courses. CONTENTS 1. Introduction / 2. The Multicultural Counseling Competencies / 3. Dimensions of Personal Identity and Racial Identity Models / 4. Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Value and Biases, Attitudes and Beliefs / 5. Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Values and Biases, Knowledge / 6. Counselor Awareness of Own Cultural Values and Biases, Skills / 7. Counselor Awareness of Client's Worldview, Attitudes and Beliefs / 8. Counselor Awareness of Client's Worldview, Knowledge / 9. Counselor Awareness of Client's Worldview, Skills / 10. Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, Beliefs and Attitudes / 11. Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, Knowledge / 12. Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies, Skills / 13. Goals and Plans for the Future PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-4129-9652-5 • ©2013 • 224 PAGES • COMPANION WEBSITE Titles displaying this symbol are accompanied by an Instructor Teaching Site and/or Student Study Site. These sites offer a variety of additional learning resources available to you and your students.

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