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Informationen zum Autor Elias Mpofu is professor and head of discipline of rehabilitation counseling at the University of Sydney, Australia. Formerly professor of rehabilitation services at the Pennsylvania State University, he has also held professorial appointments at the University of Botswana and the University of Zimbabwe. He was awarded three national research awards in rehabilitation in 2007 by the American Rehabilitation Counseling Association (ARCA), U.S. National Council on Rehabilitation Education (NCRE) and U.S. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). His research and education expertise recognitions also include an awarded honorary doctoral degree in education by the University of Pretoria, South Africa (2010) and the rehabilitation educator of the year award by the U.S. NCRE (2010). He is also on several awarded research grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health investigating the interface of faith and health in several African communities. Mpofu has more than twenty years of research and health education experience in sub-Saharan Africa and has published more than eighty research articles in peer-refereed journals, fifty book chapters, and eight books in the last sixteen years. He is the lead co-editor of Rehabilitation and Health Assessment: Applying ICF Guidelines (2010) and Assessment in Rehabilitation and Health (2010). Klappentext Leading African and Africanist scholars explore common cultural values in African heritage communities and their practical applications in contemporary counseling. Zusammenfassung This volume advances a uniquely Afro-centric! sociocultural understanding of health maintenance and risk reduction in African cultural heritage populations and explores the common cultural values in these communities and their practical applications in contemporary counseling. Each chapter includes field-based experiential tasks! discussion boxes! research boxes and case studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Foundations of Counseling in African Settings: 1. Indigenous healing practices in sub-Saharan Africa Elias Mpofu, Karl Peltzer and Olaniyi Bojuwoye; 2. The role of oral tradition in counseling people of African ancestry Jacobus G. Maree and Cecilia M. du Toit; 3. Assessment for counseling intervention Lynne Radomsky, Sofoh Hassane, Michelle Hoy-Watkins and Chiwoza Bandawe; 4. Research on counseling in African settings Lisa Lopez Levers, Michelle May and Gwen Vogel; 5. Deconstructing counseling psychology for the African context Nithi Muthukrishna and David Lackland Sam; 6. Racial oppression, colonization, and identity: towards an empowerment model for people of African heritage Alex L. Pieterse, Dennis Howitt and Anthony V. Naidoo; Part II. Contexts of Counseling: 7. School counseling Elias Mpofu, Jacobus Gideon Maree, Joseph M. Kasayira and Carol Noela Van der Wethuizen; 8. Counseling students at tertiary institutions Ilse Ruane, Joseph M. Kasayira and Elizabeth N. Shino; 9. Family therapy within the African context Vinitha Jithoo and Terri Bakker; 10. Pastoral care and counseling Daniël Johannes Louw; 11. African refugees: challenges and prospects of resettlement programs Clemente Abrokwaa, Mary Shilalukey Ngoma, Edward Shizha and Elias Mpofu; 12. Counseling orphans and vulnerable children in Africa Gertie Pretorius, Brandon Morgan, Magen Mhaka-Mutepfa, Mary Shilalukey Ngoma and Thokozile Mayekiso; 13. Diversity counseling with African Americans Debra A. Harley and Kim L. Stansbury; 14. Resolving conflict in Africa: in search for sustainable peace Joleen Steyn Kotze and Gerrie Swart; Part III. Counseling Applications: 15. Counseling for trauma David J. A. Edwards and Linda Eskell Blokland; 16. HIV and AIDS counseling Lisa Lopez Levers, Elias Mpofu, Ronél Ferreira and Joseph Kasayira; 17. Substance use disorder counseling Monika M. L. dos Santos, Solomon T. Rataemane, Elias Mpofu and Andreas Plüddemann; 18. Career...
