Diversity in College Settings

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

• Chester M. Pierce -- ForewordYvonne M. Jenkins -- PrefacePART I COUNSELING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY WITHSTUDENTS OF COLOR1 Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Diversity in College Settings: The Challenge of Helping Professionals2 Winona F. Simms -- The Native American Indian Client: A Tale of Two Cultures3Irving M. Allen -- Therapeutic Considerations for African American Students at Predominantly White Institutions4 M. Maureen Walker -- Dual Traumatization: A Sociocultural Perspective5 Jenai Wu -- Engagement of an Asian American Woman: Cultural and Psychological Issues6 Connie S. Chan -- Culture, Sexuality, and Shame: A Korean American Woman's Experience7 SuzanneH. Vogel -- Culture Shock and Cross-Cultural Therapy with a Japanese Student8 Margarita Alvarez -- Diversity Among Latinas: Implications for College Mental Health9 Diane Hart-Webb -- The Biracial Bind: An Identity Dilemma10 Brunilda De Leon, Michelle C. Stefanisko and Belinda Lopez Corteza -- College Enrollment and Academic Success Among Puerto Rican Women11 Doris J.Wright -- Group Services for Students of ColorPARTII UNDERRECOGNIZED AND EMERGING CHALLENGES12 KennethT. Dinklage -- The World of the So-Called "Learning Disabled" Student13 Diane G. Hansen -- Key Factors That Differentiate Nontraditional From Traditional Students14 SungLim A. Shin -- Contextualizing Career Concerns of Asian American Students15 Nadja B. Gould -- Psychotherapy in the Shadow of Death: A Graduate Student with AIDS16 Yvonne M. Jenkins -- Salient Themes and Directives for College Helping ProfessionalsThomas A. Parham -- Afterword

"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