Synopsis

This practical guide for developing and using culture-centered counseling and interviewing skills is by well-known authorities on the subject. This guide examines culturally learned assumptions that all of us employ in managing and interacting with others and uses models of synthetic cultures for students, teachers, professional counselors, and interviewers in raising questions, interpreting, focusing on and mediating in multicultural situations.

Biography

PAUL B. PEDERSEN is Professor of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

ALLEN IVEY is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.