Full Description
Providing an overview of essential topics in multicultural psychology, Humanistic Approaches to Multiculturalism and Diversity focuses on the intersection of humanistic psychology and multiculturalism, including history, theory, research, and practice.
The authors examine the unique contributions of humanistic psychology to multicultural psychology on topics often ignored, such as cultural empathy and indigenous psychology and diversity. The book critiques and rectifies previous failures to adequately engage multicultural issues by providing methods for integrating multicultural psychology and humanistic therapy. Readers will find that each chapter advances scholarship through a dialogue with multicultural perspectives and builds a foundation for future scholarship and clinical practice.
This book will be of great interest to mental health professionals interested in humanistic and existential psychology.
Contents
Foreword by Kirk J. Schneider
List of contributors
PART I: History and Critique of Humanistic Psychology from a Multicultural Perspective
1. Introduction
Louis Hoffman, Heatherlyn Cleare-Hoffman, Nathaniel Granger, Jr., and David St. John
2. Why I Left Humanistic Psychology
Geneva Reynaga-Abiko
3. The Challenge of Multiculturalism to Humanistic Psychology
Dan Hocoy
4. The History of Black Psychology and Humanistic Psychology: Synergetic Prospects
Theopia Jackson
5. Humanity and Inhumanity: Relational Themes in Humanistic-Existential Psychology and Multiculturalism Reflected in the United States Constitution, U.S. Constitutional Jurisprudence, and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Alan G. Vaughan
PART II: Multicultural Competencies and Beyond in Humanistic Practice
6. Multicultural Competencies and Humanistic Psychology
Lisa Vallejos and Zonya Johnson
7. Microaggressions and Humanistic Psychology
Nathaniel Granger, Jr.
8. White Privilege: A Multifaceted Responsibility
Michael Moats
9. Culture and Empathy in Humanistic Psychology
Louis Hoffman
10. Cultural Myths, Rituals, and Festivals
Heatherlyn Cleare-Hoffman, Louis Hoffman, and Jane Perlstein
11. No Time Like the Present: Embracing Psychological, Social, and Ecological Justice
David St. John
PART III: Applications in Multicultural Contexts
12. Indigenous Psychology
Louise Sundararajan
13. Humanistic Perspectives on Sexuality
Sara K. Bridges and Christina M. New
14. Exploring Disability from the Lens of Humanistic Psychology
Juliet Rohde-Brown
15. If You Live Long Enough: An Existential-Humanistic Perspective on Aging
Myrtle Heery
16. Religious and Spiritual Diversity and Humanistic Psychology
Drake Spaeth
17. Multiculturalism and Intersectionality: Weaving New Webs of Relationship and Solidarity
Joel Federman
Afterword: Back to the Future
Ilene A. Serlin
Index
