(4th edition, 2022).
In an increasingly diverse society, mental health providers must be able to work effectively with a wide variety of clients. Hays’s best-selling text invites readers to move beyond a one-dimensional view of identity to a nuanced understanding of the overlapping cultural influences that affect us all. Her ADDRESSING framework encompasses Age and generational influences, Developmental or other Disability, Religion and spirituality, Ethnic and racial identity, Indigenous heritage, National origin, Socioeconomic/class status, Sexual orientation, and Gender.
This fourth edition remains richly illustrated with case examples, and features two new chapters: one on culturally adapted cognitive behavioral tools and techniques and another on trauma due to racism and other systemic forms of oppression. Additional new material includes an updated discussion of gender identity with attention to clinically relevant research regarding transgender and nonbinary people, more on people with disabilities (the largest minority group in the U.S.), the latest terminology and language regarding diverse minority groups, and a special section on social justice and its relationship to therapeutic practice. Each chapter includes a Key Ideas summary and practice exercises, making it ideal for personal education or group use.
Reviews
“Pamela A. Hays has accomplished a way of simultaneously emphasizing the complexities of multicultural lives while simplifying the process of understanding these layered and integrated experiences…Her skill as a teacher comes through clearly…with an approach that is accessible, inspiring, human, practical, and achievable.”
“One of the best books for addressing assessment, diagnosis, and psychotherapy from culturally responsive perspectives.”
Praise for the First Edition:
“… may be the best book yet published for clinicians seeking a practical guide for working with patients across cultural boundaries.”
“This is an excellent text for the multicultural or practicum course. It is well written, very practical, based on research, and speaks with authority and specificity to important issues in all counseling and therapy. I recommended it highly.”
“It’s hard to imagine how Pamela Hays could have improved on the first volume of this book. But she has, and with the depth and sophistication of thought about this challenging and timely issue that will delight her readers and raise the level of discourse in psychology about diversity and multiple identities. I have relied on Dr. Hays’s work and model for many years and enthusiastically recommend this book to all who work clinically, teach clinicians, and strive to create social justice through the practice of psychology.”