1st Edition

Diversity in College Settings Directives for Helping Professionals

Edited By Yvonne M. Jenkins Copyright 1999
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    As student populations become more diverse, college mental health facilities are challenged to modify traditional theoretical and practice frameworks. The first case book to focus on counseling and mental health intervention with diverse college populations, Diversity in College Settings is a timely and important collection. Taken together, the studies redirect the focus of college mental health practice, arguing convincingly for acknowledging diversity, cultivating cultural competence among health practitioners and the adoption of ethnospecific and cultural parameters in serving college populations.

    Chester M. Pierce -- Foreword
    Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Preface
    PART I COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH STUDENTS OF COLOR
    1 Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Diversity in College Settings: The Challenge of Helping Professionals
    2 Winona F. Simms -- The Native American Indian Client: A Tale of Two Cultures
    3 Irving M. Allen -- Therapeutic Considerations for African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions
    4 M. Maureen Walker -- Dual Traumatization: A Sociocultural Perspective
    5 Jenai Wu -- Engagement of an Asian American Woman: Cultural and Psychological Issues
    6 Connie S. Chan -- Culture, Sexuality, and Shame: A Korean American Woman's Experience
    7 Suzanne H. Vogel -- Culture Shock and Cross-Cultural Therapy with a Japanese Student
    8 Margarita Alvarez -- Diversity Among Latinas: Implications for College Mental Health
    9 Diane Hart-Webb -- The Biracial Bind: An Identity Dilemma
    10 Brunilda De Leon, Michelle C. Stefanisko and Belinda Lopez Corteza -- College Enrollment and Academic Success Among Puerto Rican Women
    11 Doris J. Wright -- Group Services for Students of Color
    PART II UNDERRECOGNIZED AND EMERGING CHALLENGES
    12 Kenneth T. Dinklage -- The World of the So-Called "Learning Disabled" Student
    13 Diane G. Hansen -- Key Factors That Differentiate Nontraditional From Traditional Students
    14 SungLim A. Shin -- Contextualizing Career Concerns of Asian American Students
    15 Nadja B. Gould -- Psychotherapy in the Shadow of Death: A Graduate Student with AIDS
    16 Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Salient Themes and Directives for College Helping Professionals
    Thomas A. Parham -- Afterword

    Biography

    Yvonne M. Jenkins is an Associate Psychologist at Harvard University Health Services. She is co-author of Diversity in Psychotherapy: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender,(1993) and Community Health Psychology(Routledge, 1998).

    "The work of Yvonne Jenkins and the contributing authors in Diversity in College Settings is designed to illustrate the intersection between diversity, counseling and mental health issues in institutions of higher education. . .This text is a useful resource for anyone committed to the growth and development of historically underrepresented college students. . . Its progressive qualitative style serves as a model for holistically understanding individual student experience and needs." --Partamin Farzad Nawabi, Univ. of Maryland for the Journal of College Student Development, July/August 2000."
    "Diversity in College Settings provides a rich, comprehensive contribution to the area of diversity in mental health practice. Dr. Jenkins and her colleagues deserve special praise for using their insights and experiences to address the complexity and significance of diversity head-on." -- Dr. Herbert M. Joseph, Director of the Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston University School of Medicine
    " Diversity in College Settings is a collection of clinical and counseling case studies of college students from diverse populations. Using a broad definition of diversity that includes race, gender, ethnicity, culture, health concerns, age, and learning challenges, it address the issues of mental health intervention and diversity." -- The Journal of the California Graduate School of Family Psychology