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Multicultural Encounters

Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Multicultural Encounters

Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Counsellors and other mental health professionals are increasingly encountering clients who differ from them in terms of race, culture, and ethnicity. Unfortunately many have not been trained to understand how powerfully culture affects our view of the world. The series on Multicultural Foundations of Counseling and Psychology is an invaluable new resource from Teachers College Press that focuses on multicultural issues in counseling and psychology. The books in this series chart the development of this evolving new field and will help educators, psychologists, counselors, social workers, and other mental health professionals learn to balance culture-universal and culture specific approaches to treat a diverse population. This volume uses fascinating therapeutic encounters to help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of their increasingly diverse clientele. Murphy-Shigematsu urges clinicians to look beyond their assumptions and stereotypes to learn their clients' cultures through eliciting key narratives. Keeping the client and therapist center stage, the author shows the complex ways in which their cultural self-narratives interact.

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Teachers College Press

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0807742589

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9780807742587

Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

Insights from Cultural Diversity

By: Richard Katz,Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

Insights from Cultural Diversity

By: Richard Katz,Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Guided by the concept of synergy, this groundbreaking collection explores alternatives in the areas of counseling, education, and community health and development. Synergy refers to the process of two or more things coming together to create a new, greater, and often-unexpected whole. When synergy exists, formerly scarce resources can expand and become renewable and accessible to all. Drawing upon the diverse cultural experiences of Aboriginal groups in North America and around the world, these compelling narratives provide practical insights into the emergence of synergy and obstacles to its existence. Synergy, Healing and Empowerment offers invaluable guidance in the pursuit of a just and equitable society.

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312

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Brush Education

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1550593862

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9781550593860

From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

Transforming Self and Society with Compassion

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

Transforming Self and Society with Compassion

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

“A rare gem . . . filled with valuable and authentic teachings about practical and spiritual paths toward balance and understanding.” —Richard Katz, PhD, author of Indigenous Healing Psychology Millions have found mindfulness to be a powerful practice for reducing stress, enhancing attention, and instilling tranquility. But it can offer so much more—it can transform you, make you more fully awake, alive, and aware of your connection to all beings. In Japanese, the character that best expresses mindfulness, 念, consists of two parts—the top part, 今, meaning “now,” and the bottom part, 心, meaning “heart.” Using stories from his own life as the son of an Irish father and a Japanese mother, a professor in Japan and America, a psychotherapist, a father, and a husband, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu describes eight “heartfulness” principles that help us realize that the deepest expression of an enlightened mind is found in our relation to others. “He shows us through stories and practices how to expand our contemplative lives from being self-focused to being inclusive, connected, compassionate, and responsible . . . Each story is a jewel, opening the heart. He connects heartfulness to social justice, leadership, and education and offers simple, direct instructions for seven heartful practices.” —Mirabai Bush, author of Walking Each Other Home (with Ram Dass) “Resonant with Stephen’s kindness, heartfulness, and wisdom and filled with excellent exercises and practical guides, this lovely volume will be a friend and guide to all those intent on creating and sustaining thriving lives, workplaces, relationships, and communities.” —Dan Barbezat, Professor of Economics, Amherst College

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235

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523094575

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9781523094578

When Half Is Whole

Multiethnic Asian American Identities

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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When Half Is Whole

Multiethnic Asian American Identities

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now." So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu uses his personal journey of identity exploration and discovery of his diverse roots to illuminate the journeys of others. Throughout the book, his reflections are interspersed among portraits of persons of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their efforts to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I? Here we meet Norma, raised in postwar Japan, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American serviceman, who struggled to make sense of her ethnic heritage and national belonging. Wei Ming, born in Australia and raised in the San Francisco of the 1970s and 1980s, grapples as well with issues of identity, in her case both ethnic and sexual. We also encounter Rudy, a "Mexipino"; Marshall, a "Jewish, adopted Korean"; Mitzi, a "Blackinawan"; and other extraordinary people who find how connecting to all parts of themselves also connects them to others. With its attention on people who have been regarded as "half" this or "half" that throughout their lives, these stories make vivid the process of becoming whole.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783950

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9780804783958

From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

Transforming Self and Society with Compassion

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Transforming Self and Society with Compassion

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

Explaining how mindfulness can be so much more than a practice for reducing stress, enhancing attention, and instilling tranquility, this book describes eight heartfulness principles that help us realize that the deepest expression of an enlightened mind is found in our relation to others. --

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Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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1523094567

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9781523094561

Japan's Demographic Revival

Rethinking Migration, Identity and Sociocultural Norms

By: Stephen Robert Nagy

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Japan's Demographic Revival

Rethinking Migration, Identity and Sociocultural Norms

By: Stephen Robert Nagy

Japan's Demographic Revival shifts discussions about employing immigration as the 'best' or 'sole' solution to assuaging Japan's demographic quagmire to a more systematic approach that identifies structural, organizational and cultural impediments that contribute to Japan's (and other countries') declining demographic situations. This edited volume also sheds light on the plethora of changes required to produce a demographically sustainable Japan.Part One includes chapters explaining the endogenous, ethnocultural and structural obstacles that link ethnocultural understandings of citizenship and nationality. Part Two consists of chapters that provide insight into the societal barriers that exist in Japan to address demographic issues. Part Three shifts its focus away from identifying and analyzing the structural, organizational and cultural factors towards chapters that are policy oriented, linking existing policies as contributing factors behind Japan's demographic challenge.

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World Scientific

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9814678880

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9789814678889

When Half Is Whole

Multiethnic Asian American Identities

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Multiethnic Asian American Identities

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Multicultural Encounters

Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Case Narratives from a Counseling Practice

By: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

This volume uses fascinating therapeutic encounters to help clinicians understand and respond to the needs of their increasingly diverse clientele. Emphasizing the importance of balancing general cultural awareness with a consciousness of openness and curiosity, Murphy-Shigematsu urges clinicians to look beyond their assumptions and stereotypes to learn their clients' cultures through eliciting key narratives. Keeping the client and therapist center stage, the author shows the complex ways in which their cultural self-narratives interact.

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Multicultural Foundations of P

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0807742597

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9780807742594

Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

Insights from Cultural Diversity

By: Richard Katz,Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

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Insights from Cultural Diversity

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Brush Education

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Multicultural Encounters

Multicultural Encounters

Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

When Half Is Whole

When Half Is Whole

From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

From Mindfulness to Heartfulness

Japan's Demographic Revival

Japan's Demographic Revival

When Half Is Whole

When Half Is Whole

Multicultural Encounters

Multicultural Encounters

Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

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