Counseling Persons of African Descent: Raising the Bar of Practitioner Competence

This represents a major breakthrough in scholarship on African American psychology. An important work for counseling professionals as well as for students in social work and counseling programs. It provides an in-depth analysis of the counseling literature pertaining to African American clients and includes a review of the different variables that have received the bulk of research attention. This sets the stage for the presentation of a counseling model for African American clients.