Diversity in College Settings: Directives for Helping Professionals. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 2000

JENKINS, Yvonne M. (Ed.). Diversity in College Settings: Directives for Helping Professionals. New York: Routledge, 1999. 260pp. $70.00 (h), $20.99 (p).

Diversity in College Settings is a collection of clinical and counseling case studies of college students from diverse populations. Using a broad definition of diversity that includes race, gender, ethnicity, culture, health concerns, age, and learning challenges, it addresses the issues of mental health intervention and diversity. Chapters include: diversity in college settings; the Native American Indian client; therapeutic considerations for African American students at predominantly white institutions; dual traumatization; engagement of an Asian American woman; culture, sexuality, and shame; culture shock and cross-cultural therapy with a Japanese student; diversity among Latinas; the biracial bind; college enrollment and academic success among Puerto Rican women; group services for students of color; the world of the so-called "learning disabled" student; key factors that differentiate nontraditional from traditional students; contextualizing career concerns of Asian American students; psychotherapy in t he shadow of death; and salient themes and directives for college helping professionals.