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In ""Becoming Culturally Oriented: Practical Advice for Psychologists and Educators"", Nadya A. Fouad and Patricia Arredondo provide a comprehensive framework for helping psychologists to increase and improve culturally responsive practice, research, and education. Research shows that racial and ethnic minorities have less access to mental health services than do Whites and are more likely to receive poor quality services. Compounding these problems is the fact that ethnic minority psychologists are poorly represented among psychologists as a whole, relative to their numbers in the general population. To address these concerns, APA has developed the Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, and Organizational Change for Psychologists as a blueprint for psychologists pursuing their work in increasingly diverse communities. The Guidelines are written in aspirational language, but to date, an associated program for applying the guidelines has been missing. In this book, Fouad and Arredondo show how educators, practitioners, administrators, and researchers can use each of the guidelines as a basis for consciousness-raising and self-examination as well as for broadening culturally responsive practices on an organizational level. Addressing each guideline in turn, the authors provide case studies, checklists, and questions for self-examination and discussion, designed to foster planning and implementation of more culturally informed psychological services and teaching practices.

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• 1 Introduction to Multicultural-Centered Practices(p. 3)
• Demographic Changes(p. 5)
• Implications for Psychology(p. 6)
• Background of the "Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists"(p. 7)
• The Theoretical and Empirical Basis for the Book(p. 8)
• Summary(p. 13)
• 2 Evaluating Cultural Identity and Biases(p. 15)
• Competency Statements(p. 15)
• Cultural Self-Awareness and Knowledge of Others(p. 16)
• Minority and Racial Cultural Identity Development(p. 21)
• Positioning and the Emotions(p. 31)
• Roadblocks to Multicultural Self-Development(p. 32)
• Summary(p. 33)
• 3 Psychologists in Cross-Cultural Interactions With Others(p. 35)
• Competency Statements(p. 35)
• Interacting Worldviews in Cross-Cultural Relationships(p. 36)
• Effects of Microaggressions(p. 37)
• Contributing Factors to Ethnocentric Worldviews(p. 38)
• Cross-Cultural Communication Norms(p. 42)
• Unconscious Dynamics and Their Effects(p. 44)
• Aversive Racism(p. 45)
• Negative Effects of Social Control(p. 46)
• Invisibility Syndrome(p. 46)
• Intergroup Contact(p. 47)
• Summary(p. 49)
• 4 Implications for Psychologists as Practitioners(p. 51)
• Competency Statements(p. 51)
• Overview(p. 51)
• Case Vignette 1 Carmen(p. 54)
• Case Vignette 2 Vera(p. 55)
• Case Vignette 3 Harold(p. 55)
• Client in Context(p. 56)
• Assessment(p. 59)
• Interventions(p. 61)
• Summary(p. 64)
• 5 Implications for Psychologists as Educators(p. 65)
• Competency Statements(p. 65)
• Overview(p. 66)
• Rationale(p. 66)
• Infusing a Multiculturally Centered Perspective Into Psychological Curricula(p. 67)
• Teaching Strategies for a Multiculturally Centered Approach(p. 72)
• Summary(p. 79)
• 6 Implications for Psychologists as Researchers(p. 81)
• Competency Statements(p. 81)
• Overview: Race-Ethnicity and Psychological Research(p. 82)
• Case Vignette 1 Marlene(p. 84)
• Case Vignette 2 Julia(p. 85)
• Research Assumptions and Design(p. 85)
• Dissemination(p. 91)
• Summary(p. 93)
• 7 Psychologists as Organizational Change Agents(p. 95)
• Competency Statements(p. 95)
• Psychologists as Organizational Change Agents(p. 96)
• Case Vignette 1 Midwest State University(p. 97)
• Reflection on Case Vignette 1(p. 98)
• Planning for Multicultural Organizational Change(p. 99)
• Engaging in a Multicultural Organizational Development(p. 102)
• Case Vignette 2 The Center for Healthy Living(p. 105)
• Clarifying Motivating Factors(p. 105)
• Building Knowledge by Assessing Needs(p. 106)
• Other Considerations in a Multicultural Organizational Transformation Process(p. 116)
• Leadership(p. 118)
• The Future of Multicultural Organizational Development(p. 118)
• Summary(p. 119)
• 8 Concluding Thoughts: Psychology as a Transformed Profession(p. 121)
• Competency Statements(p. 121)
• Overview(p. 121)
• Future Directions(p. 124)
• Blueprint for Change in Organizations(p. 125)
• Summary(p. 127)
• Closing Thoughts(p. 129)
• Appendix A Checklist for Culturally Competent Practice(p. 131)
• Appendix B The Empowerment Workshops' Workforce Diversity Audit: An Organizational Self-Assessment(p. 133)
• References(p. 143)
• Index(p. 155)
• About the Authors(p. 161)

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According to the US Surgeon General, "Racial and ethnic minorities have less access to mental health services than do whites. They are less likely to receive needed care. When they receive care, it is more likely to be poor in quality." This is a pervasive problem, and Fouad (Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and Arredondo (Arizona State Univ.) provide a much-needed manual for addressing it by applying the American Psychological Association's "Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists," approved in 2002. Focusing on information pertinent to practitioners, administrators, educators, and researchers, the authors include tools for self-examination, questions for discussion, definitions of pertinent terms, activities, and case vignettes. The emphasis throughout is the importance of cultural diversity and the psychologist's understanding of the significant role culture plays in an individual's life. Personal and organizational change is the aim, and this practical, well-written guide makes this important, necessary goal seem reachable. This book is a must for those delivering, or training to deliver, psychological or mental health services. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals. J. Bailey Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute

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Fouad - University of Wisconsin; Arredondo - Arizona State University