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In Culture-Centered Counseling, Dr. Paul B. Pedersen shows how recognizing the centrality of culture can augment therapy and result in effective treatment of all clients. This approach involves recognizing cultural assumptions and acquiring knowledge and skills to get beyond them, something that may be done no matter what treatment model a therapist might use. The video demonstrates how inclusive cultural empathy with a divergent contextual focus differs from conventional convergent and individualistic interpretations of empathy. In this session, Dr. Pedersen works with a young Latina woman named Maria who is trying to become more assertive in her interpersonal relationships. Dr. Pedersen helps Maria begin to find a way to be assertive without sacrificing the traditions she wants to preserve from her heritage.
The "culture-centered" approach to counseling and therapy assumes that cultural factors complicate counseling, but in a positive way, and that behaviors have no meaning until they are understood in the cultural context in which those behaviors have been learned and are displayed.
Paul B. Pedersen received his PhD from Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, California. He is professor emeritus in the Department of Human Services at Syracuse University and visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii. Dr. Pedersen's research interest includes multicultural counseling and counselor education and training; international educational exchange and brain drain issues; indigenous psychologies, alternative and complementary therapies; constructive conflict management in a cultural context; and intrapersonal (internal dialogue/self-talk) resources for mental health.
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