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Culturally Responsive Interventions: Innovative Approaches to Working with Diverse Population; Edited by J. R. Ancis (2004); ISBN: 0-415-93333-1

Reviewed by Abiola Dipeolu, Ph.D., an assistant professor at Wichita State University. This review appeared in the February 2005 edition of Counseling Today, American Counseling Association.

This book’s importance lies not in its ability to serve as an exhaustive compendium of culturally responsive interventions; instead, it rests with its utility to provide psychologists with useful, culturally relevant interventions. It ventures past problem identification into the neglectful field of practical solutions appropriate for the culturally diverse. Winding its way throughout the book is the axiom that behavior cannot be understood outside its cultural context. The authors...

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