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2010 45(2)

Psychotherapy Bulletin 45(2): Online Version

Updates from the 2010 Meeting of the APA Council

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Norine Johnson and I are your representatives to APA Council of Representatives. We bring you the decisions and direction of APA in our report immediately after the Council meeting. We also want your input and your opinions before we go to Council in order to accurately represent your ideas and thoughts [...]

Culture in Psychotherapy Practice and Research: Awareness, Knowledge, and Skills

By Mamta Dadlani, M.S. and David Scherer, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Amherst Introduction As the people of the United States become even more culturally diverse, psychotherapists are required to develop their cultural competence.  Health disparities persist with regard to many cultural identities including race, class, sexual orientation, and ability (Gehlert, Mininger, Sohmer & Berg, 2008; [...]

Cultivating Cultural Competence: Understanding and Integrating Cultural Diversity in Psychotherapy

In today’s rapidly growing multicultural society, psychotherapists are faced with the complex task of working effectively with clientele whose psychosocial dynamics include increasingly diverse cultural values, beliefs and attitudes that the psychotherapist is either not aware of or not prepared to engage as part of the therapy.