{"product_id":"international-case-studies-in-mental-health-paperback","title":"International Case Studies in Mental Health - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSenel Poyrazli\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eChalmer E. Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInternational Case Studies in Mental Health\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003epresents a variety of global cases from both developed and developing countries, detailing descriptions of the people who are seeking help to eliminate their distress and of the exceptional practitioners who provide the help. In most of the cases, the practitioner is someone who shares a similar heritage with her or his help seeker, and who is influenced at least partly by Western psychotherapy traditions. Each chapter also is a showcase of how scholars pair up with mental health practitioners to create a work that weaves together contextual and individual qualities to inform an understanding of the help-seeker and the intervention. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book aims to help prepare both mental health trainees and practicing professionals to be effective in the provision of \u003ci\u003ehealing \u003c\/i\u003ein their work with people in different regions of the world. Consequently, the authors hope to offer practitioners a glimpse of what can be achieved in these regions by people whose reputations within the respective communities are strong. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSenel Poyrazli \u003c\/b\u003eworks as an associate professor at Pennsylvania State University, teaching counseling and therapy related courses and coordinating two gradute programs in psychology. She is a licensed psychologist and has a part-time private practice. Her clinical background includes working with adolescents, college students, adults, and married\/unmarried couples, and dealing with issues primarily related to relationships, psychosocial adjustment, decision making, depression, and trauma. Her research involves cross-cultural competency training and processes related to acculturation and psychosocial adjustment. Dr. Poyrazli collaborates internationally for her research, which has been published in well-known journals. Dr. Poyrazli is actively involved within the APA and chaired several committees at divisional level. She is an APA fellow and was the editor of \u003ci\u003eInternational Psychology Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e, APA Division 52′s (International Psychology) official publication, for 5 years. Currently, she serves as a consulting editor for \u003ci\u003eInternational Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation\u003c\/i\u003e and as a co-editor of \u003ci\u003eEurasian Journal of Educational Research\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChalmer Thompson \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor of counseling and counselor education at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). In recent years, she has worked as a researcher with the IUPUI African American Male Equity Project and as a collaborator-consultant with the department of psychology faculty at Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda. In Uganda, her collaboration with psychology faculty, who play key roles in teacher education, is for the purpose of expanding the university′s offerings of degree programs and creating a model doctoral-level curriculum that centers on peace and justice. Kyambogo University oversees all of the nation′s teacher colleges. Her research and writing interests are in the application of racial identity theory to a variety of practices like counseling, teaching, and community activism, the integration of peace-building concepts to classroom instruction, and the analyses of racial discourse in the process of counseling and psychotherapy. She has written several articles and book chapters. With Robert T. Carter, she is the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRacial Identity Theory: Applications to Individual, Group, and Organizational Interventions \u003c\/i\u003e(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1997). She is Fellow of Division 17 (Society for\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eCounseling Psychology) and Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minorities) of the American Psychological Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.8 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67592704917811,"sku":"9781412990356","price":177.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/AI4SZWH3eA9781412990356.webp?v=1790714791","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/international-case-studies-in-mental-health-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}