About this item
Highlights
- Cultural competency begins with knowing who you are.
- About the Author: Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, has over 35 years of experience in cross cultural counseling, research, and traditional healing practices.
- 242 Pages
- Education, Multicultural Education
Description
Book Synopsis
Cultural competency begins with knowing who you are. Interactive, engaging and fun -- this workbook is filled with valuable exercises, worksheets, games and clinical strategies to help you become more culturally competent. Use this powerful tool to explore cultural communities, religion, spirituality, gender, sexuality and disability. You'll find unique activities to help you reflect on your own attitudes, prejudices, and develop new skills for working with and building rapport with diverse clients.
Group Discussion Questions
Client Worksheets
Multimedia Resources
Strategies for Client Engagement
Mindfulness & Meditation Activities
Therapist Worksheets, Exercises and Case Vignettes
Review Quotes
"A comprehensive, collaborative and insightful workbook, it offers the clinician opportunities to reflect on their personal cultural identity and socialization while encouraging a deeper understanding of the role of power, privilege, and the complexities of culture, ethnicity and race in other cultural communities. This workbook provides practical worksheets to help professionals moreover establish rapport and relationship with their clients. Dr. Korn's book is a gift to the field of mental health and will support culturally responsive professionals."---Priscilla Sanville, PhD, Professor Emerita, Creative Arts in Learning and Social Justice Facilitator, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
"A wise traditional birth attendant from Darfur once told that 'knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.' Leslie's workbook is an effective fertilizer to cultivate multicultural counseling in the garden of clinical knowledge. It's a great resource for clinicians and healers to develop multicultural competencies and mindfulness to diversify their work. It can also be used as a 'refresher' for many kinds of helping professionals."---Janaka Jayawickrama, PhD, Lecturer and Community Care Practitioner, University of York, United Kingdom
"As a university faculty member and clinical practitioner, I think Dr. Korn's book is a wonderful, comprehensive and much needed resource for cultural competency development. The narrative assists the reader in the exploration of one's personal cultural self-awareness and helps the acquisition of new skills. I found this workbook to be the best multicultural counseling field guide I've read in many years. It provides a thorough compilation of information, worksheets and exercises that clinicians will value for a long time to come."---Dinah Manns, EdD, Research Lead/Faculty, Human Behavior-Couseling Studies, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN
About the Author
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, has over 35 years of experience in cross cultural counseling, research, and traditional healing practices. She is the author of Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body, and Nutrition Essentials for Mental Health: The Complete Guide to the Food-Mood Connection.