The impetus for this volume is the growing awareness within the
mental health and larger community of a culturally affirmative
model for understanding and assisting deaf people. In contrast to
the "medical-pathological" model which treats deafness as a
disability, the "cultural" model guides us to view deaf persons in
relation to the deaf community--a group of people with a common
language, culture, and collective identity. A primary tenant of
culturally affirmative psychotherapy is to understand and respect
such differences, not to eradicate them.
The contributors to this volume present a practical and
realistic model of providing culturally affirmative counseling and
psychotherapy for deaf people. The three dimensions of this model
have been delineated by the multicultural counseling literature.
These dimensions assert that culturally affirmative psychotherapy
with deaf persons requires therapist self-awareness, knowledge of
the deaf community/culture, and understanding of
culturally-syntonic therapeutic interventions.
The first to exhaustively delineate the implications of the
cultural model of deafness for counseling deaf people, this book is
essential reading for anyone who works in an educational or
counseling capacity with the deaf. This audience includes not only
psychotherapists, but also vocational, guidance and residence
counselors, teachers, independent living skills specialists,
interpreters, and administrators of programs for the deaf.
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