Featuring an outstanding group of the leading theorists and researchers from the fields of multicultural psychology and counseling, this book begins with chapters on how the interplay of such variables of class, gender, and race interact in the development of an individual in a pluralistic society. It then presents theories on how to integrate issues of class, gender and race into counseling theory.Featuring an outstanding group of the leading theorists and researchers from the fields of multicultural psychology and counseling, this book begins with chapters on how the interplay of such variables of class, gender, and race interact in the development of an individual in a pluralistic society. It then presents theories on how to integrate issues of class, gender and race into counseling theory.Integrating Multicultural Counseling Theory - Hardin L K Coleman and Donald BPope-Davis An Introduction PART ONE: IDENTITY IN A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY The Cultural Construction of Latinas - Alberta M Gloria Practice Implications of Multiple Realities and Identities Self-in-Relation Theory and African American Female Development - Va Lecia L Adams and Teresa D LaFromboise The Interaction of Race and Gender in African American Women's Experience of Self and Others at a Predominantly White Women's College - Lisa R Jackson Holding Up Half the Sky - Vivian Ota Wang Reproductive Decision-Making of Asian Women in America Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome and the Minority Experience - Farah A Ibrahim and Hifumi Ohnishi Expanding Our Understanding of Multiculturalism - William Liu Developing a Social Class Worldview Model Academic Acculturation - Gordon C Nagayama Hall, Irene R Lopez and Anita Bansal Race, Gender and Class Issues PART TWO: INTEGRATING CLASS, GENDER AND RACE INTO COUNSELING THEORY AND COUNSELING TRAINING