This challenging and insightful work wrestles with the difficult treatment problems confronting both culturally and socially oppressed clients and psychotherapists in a society where diversity has often been resisted. The authors question long-held assumptions within the profession and urge recognition of new ethnic, racial, and gender realities which significantly impact therapies. Recognizing the implications of cultural diversity in the society, the authors-clinicians seek to broaden health professionals' awareness of clients' needs and to promote the requisite empathy. They describe how ethnic, racial, and gender issues affect psychotherapy's progress and outcomes. Specific concerns about such key factors as self-esteem, gender roles, and social regard are addressed in a context supportive of diversity enhancement rather than one seeking uniformity. Case studies offer highly valuable resource material and, through the authors' explication, insights into their challenging perspectives on this highly important health service.

Diversity in College Settings is a timely collection of case studies of counselling and mental health interventions with college students in the USA.
Contributors examine the effects that differences such as race, ethnicity, culture, health, age and learning difficulties can have on students' experiences. They focus in particular on the experiences of students from ethnic minorities in predominantly white Universities.
These experienced practitioners provide practical strategies and suggestions for effective and culturally competent interventions which should be of interest to all counsellors and mental health practitioners who work in higher education or who are interested in cross-cultural issues.

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As student populations become more diverse, college mental health facilities are challenged to modify traditional theoretical and practice frameworks. The first case book to focus on counseling and mental health intervention with diverse college populations, "Diversity in College Settings" is a timely and important collection. Taken together, the studies redirect the focus of college mental health practice, arguing convincingly for acknowledging diversity, cultivating cultural competence among health practitioners and the adoption of ethnospecific and cultural parameters in serving college populations.