ERIC Number: EJ772778
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Jul
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0193-3922
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Multicultural Group Work: A Force for Developing and Healing
Anderson, Donald
Journal for Specialists in Group Work, v32 n3 p224-244 Jul 2007
Multicultural group work represents a powerful tool for helping and healing in the context of human diversity. This article summarizes multicultural group work, including task, psychoeducational, counseling, and psychotherapy groups, and describes a group work model for multicultural assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning. Group work assessment and diagnosis should be culturally informed involving emic, etic, and a dialectic assessment perspective. Treatment planning begins with culturally informed conceptualizations of group treatment. It should include intentional stage-specific treatment strategies with multiculturally responsive interventions, which continuously address powerful inclinations, liabilities, and needs resulting from human diversity and dialectic interactions between diverse clients. (Contains 7 figures.)
Descriptors: Psychotherapy, Group Counseling, Models, Group Therapy, Group Dynamics, Cultural Pluralism, Multicultural Education, Psychological Testing, Intervention, Counseling Techniques, Counseling Theories, Minority Groups, Specialists, Diagnostic Tests, Social Bias, Social Discrimination, Social Attitudes, Cultural Relevance, Intergroup Relations, Adults
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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