Books

Books

Connecting across Cultures:
The Helpers Toolkit. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
136pp. ISBN: 9781452217918.

Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, Connecting across Cultures: The Helpers Toolkit provides both students and professionals in social services, health care and education with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with their clients and with the community at large. The book offers communication tools to defuse defensive interactions, resolve conflicts constructively, and engage respectfully. Written in a warm, inviting style, the author shares her own mistakes as she explains what not to do and how to do it better. The book provides practical, hands-on strategies for connecting with people across differences related to ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, age, gender, and class. Because cross-cultural relationships add a level of difficulty to all the usual relationship challenges, this book will help you with every relationship you may encounter.

Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy (2nd edition).

This engaging book helps readers move beyond one-dimensional conceptualizations of identity to an understanding of the complex, overlapping cultural influences that form each of us. Hays's "ADDRESSING" framework enables therapists to better recognize and understand cultural influences as a multidimensional combination of Age and generational influences, Developmental and acquired Disabilities, Religion, Ethnic and racial identity, Socioeconomic status, Sexual orientation, Indigenous heritage, National origin, and Gender. Unlike other books on therapy with diverse clients, which tend to focus on working with one particular ethnic group, Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice presents a framework that can be used with a person of any cultural identity.

This second edition has been updated throughout and has new sections on cross-cultural assessment of trauma, on psychotherapy with people living in poverty, and on ethical boundaries and complex relationships in rural and minority communities. A special section describes how to integrate cultural considerations into the evidence-based practice of cognitive behavior therapy. Organized according to the flow of clinical work (in contrast to the one chapter-per-group approach), the book's contents are summarized in handy Key Tables at the end of each chapter for ease of use in education and supervision.  This stimulating book will be an important resource for counselors, clinicians, and mental health professionals working with clients from a variety of backgrounds.

 Hays, P. A. (2008). Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Therapy (2nd edition). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

 

Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy

Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Assessment, Practice, and Supervision is the first book to integrate cultural influences into cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). This engagingly written volume describes the application of CBT with people of diverse cultures and discusses how therapists can refine cognitive-behavioral therapy to increase its effectiveness with clients of many cultures. The contributing authors examine the characteristics of some of the most common cultural groups in the United States including American Indian, Latino, Asian, and African American, as well as groups less commonly considered in multicultural psychology books: people of Alaska Native, Arab, and Orthodox Jewish heritage.

The volume also describes the use of CBT with older adults, people with disabilities, and gay and lesbian individuals, including examples of people who hold bicultural and multicultural identities. A chapter on culturally responsive assessment, with an emphasis on the most frequently used cognitive-behavioral assessment scales, and a chapter on supervision round out this volume. Numerous case examples provide practical information grounded in an empirically supported theory, making this book a practical resource for every therapist.

Hays, P. A., & Iwamasa, G. Y. (Eds.) (2006). Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 

 

DVD (available only to psychotherapy professionals):

Hays, Pamela A. (2012). Culturally Responsive CognitiveBehavioral Therapy in Practice. Produced by the American Psychological Association, Wash., D.C.

To order, go to: www.apa.org/pubs/videos/4310900.aspx

 

In this DVD, Pamela A. Hays demonstrates her change-oriented approach to psychotherapy, adapting mainstream cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) to fit the client's cultural identity, context, and preferences. Using everyday, culturally relevant language to describe and explain CBT, Dr. Hays works with a young African American Christian woman to recognize the clients culture as a potent source of strength and motivation.

 

Key aspects of culturally responsive CBT include acceptance of core cultural beliefs, an emphasis on culturally related strengths and supports, and validation of the client's experiences of oppression with consideration of the need for environmental change. The culturally responsive thought-change process involves reconsideration of the helpfulness of thoughts rather than their rationality or validity. Culturally congruent homework is developed in close collaboration with the client.

Additional articles:

Hays, P. A. (2009).  Integrating evidence-based practice, CBT, and multicultural therapy:10 steps to culturally competent practice.  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 40, 354-360.

Hays, P. A.  (2007).  A strengths-oriented approach to psychotherapy with Middle Eastern people. In C. Muran (Ed.), Dialogues on Difference: Studies of diversity in the therapeutic relationship (pp. 243-250). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Hays, P. A. (2005). Continuing Education Test for Addressing Cultural Complexities in Practice: A Framework for Clinicians and Counselors. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. (See www.apa.org/ce for more info.)

Hays, P. A. (2006). CBT with Alaska Native people. In P. A. Hays & G. Y. Iwamasa (Eds.), Culturally Responsive Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (pp. 47-72.) Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Hays, P.A. (1996). Addressing the complexities of culture and gender in counseling. Journal of Counseling and Development, 74, 332-338.

Hays, P.A. (1996). Cultural considerations in couples therapy. Women and Therapy, 19, 13-23.

Hays, P.A. (1996). Culturally responsive assessment with diverse older clients. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 27, 188-193.

Hays, P.A. (1995). Multicultural applications of cognitive behavior therapy. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 26, 309-315.

Hays, P.A., & Zouari, J. (1995). Social change, stress, and mental health among rural, village and urban Tunisian women. International Journal of Psychology, 30, 69-90.

Hays, P.A. (1991). Mental health, social support, and life satisfaction among Vietnamese, Lao, and Cambodian refugees. In N. Bleichrodt & P.J.D. Drenth (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Cross-Cultural Psychology (pp. 275-284). Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger.

Santora, J., & Hays, P.A. (1998). Coping outside traditional roles: The case of noncustodial mothers and implications for therapy. Women & Therapy, 21, 53-66.