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This book aims to create a foundation that respects theory, culture, and the mental health professions and to initiate the practical and needed discussions about how to work with immigrant families.

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9780415800617

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An excellent book. Working With Immigrant Families helps counselors escape 'cultural encapsulation' by seeing the advantage of learning from those who are different from one's self. - Paul B. Pedersen, coeditor of Counseling Across Cultures, Sixth Edition., and Syracuse University, USA Working With Immigrant Families attacks a central issue of our time. The chapters are concise, clear, and give excellent, specific guidance and offer new ideas for working with and advocating for our immigrant populations. Every counselor and therapist should have this book on their shelf. --Allen E. Ivey, University of Massachusetts-- Amherst, USA The role of counseling practice with undocumented immigrant populations is relatively uncharted. Enter Working With Immigrant Families, which provides guidance on issues of clinical, ethical, and therapeutic practice. This book is a timely and extremely relevant guide for practitioners who interface with these psychologically vulnerable populations. --Joseph M. Cervantes, California State University-- Fullerton, USA Working With Immigrant Families is an engrossing, readable, and insightful guide to the complex and interconnected roles immigrant families face. This book is a must-read for those mental health professionals who are increasingly seeing these families in their practice. --Mark Pope, Past President, American Counseling Association, USA, and author of The Handbook for Counseling International Students in the U.S.

"""An excellent book. Working With Immigrant Families helps counselors escape 'cultural encapsulation' by seeing the advantage of learning from those who are different from one's self."" - Paul B. Pedersen, coeditor of Counseling Across Cultures, Sixth Edition., and Syracuse University, USA ""Working With Immigrant Families attacks a central issue of our time. The chapters are concise, clear, and give excellent, specific guidance and offer new ideas for working with and advocating for our immigrant populations. Every counselor and therapist should have this book on their shelf."" --Allen E. Ivey, University of Massachusetts-- Amherst, USA ""The role of counseling practice with undocumented immigrant populations is relatively uncharted. Enter Working With Immigrant Families, which provides guidance on issues of clinical, ethical, and therapeutic practice. This book is a timely and extremely relevant guide for practitioners who interface with these psychologically vulnerable populations."" --Joseph M. Cervantes, California State University-- Fullerton, USA ""Working With Immigrant Families is an engrossing, readable, and insightful guide to the complex and interconnected roles immigrant families face. This book is a must-read for those mental health professionals who are increasingly seeing these families in their practice."" --Mark Pope, Past President, American Counseling Association, USA, and author of The Handbook for Counseling International Students in the U.S."

An excellent book. Working With Immigrant Families helps counselors escape 'cultural encapsulation' by seeing the advantage of learning from those who are different from one's self. --Paul B. Pedersen, coeditor of Counseling Across Cultures, 6th ed., and Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University Working With Immigrant Families attacks a central issue of our time. The chapters are concise, clear, and give excellent, specific guidance and offer new ideas for working with and advocating for our immigrant populations. Every counselor and therapist should have this book on their shelf. --Allen E. Ivey, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished University Professor, University of Massachusetts--Amherst The role of counseling practice with undocumented immigrant populations is relatively uncharted. Enter Working With Immigrant Families, which provides guidance on issues of clinical, ethical, and therapeutic practice. This book is a timely and extremely relevant guide for practitioners who interface with these psychologically vulnerable populations. --Joseph M. Cervantes, PhD, ABPP, Professor, Department of Counseling, California State University--Fullerton Working With Immigrant Families is an engrossing, readable, and insightful guide to the complex and interconnected roles immigrant families face. This book is a must-read for those mental health professionals who are increasingly seeing these families in their practice. --Mark Pope, EdD, Past President, American Counseling Association and author of The Handbook for Counseling International Students in the U.S.

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Sonoma State University, California, USA Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University, Illinois; Psychologist with the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Governors State University, Illinois, USA

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