Culture-Centered Counseling Interventions

Paul B. Pedersen is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Pedersen was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University, 1984-988 and the University of Pittsburgh “semester at sea” voyage around the world, spring 1992. International experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe, and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University 1999-2000. He has authored, co-authored or edited 40 books, 99 articles, and 72 chapters on aspects of multicultural counseling and international communication. Pedersen is a fellow in Divisions 9, 17, 45 and 52 of the American Psychological Association.

• IntroductionPART ONE: THE CULTURE-CENTERED CONTEXTDefining Culture in ContextManaging Culturally Learned AssumptionsManaging the Cultural ContextPART TWO: SPECIFIC CULTURE-CENTERED CONTEXTSAsian and Non-Western ContextsReligious and Spiritual ContextsInternational Student ContextsFamily Therapy in a Systemic ContextPART THREE: CULTURE-CENTERED SKILLSCulture-Centered Counseling SkillsFinding Common Ground Using the Cultural GridCulture-Centered EthicsCulture-Centered ControversiesConclusion