Hidden Messages in Culture-Centered Counseling

This text offers the first comprehensive overview of the Triad Training Model for counsellor education, which is seen as particularly important for those training to work in a multicultural context.

Topics explored include: positive and negative internal dialogue in counselling; training implications of hidden messages; and developing multicultural competencies with the Model.

Hidden Messages in Culture-Centered Counseling offers the first comprehensive overview of the Triad Training Model for counselor education. First introduced by Paul B. Pedersen about twenty years ago, this model has been widely used across counseling and counselor education programs—both in university settings and in continuing education workshops. The theory behind the Triad Training Model has been touched on in other literature, but nowhere has it been brought together and presented in a unified format. In this text, he presents the theoretical underpinnings of the model, drawing from counseling but also social psychology and other fields. Also shown are the major applications of the model in counselor training and education, some of the nontraditional applications, and a demonstration of its flexibility to a wide range of professional, practical/clinical, and academic contexts. Pedersen offers a wide-ranging review of the key literature on the model, its applications, and the various theoretical currents from which it derives.

PART ONE: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH INFORMATION
The Psychological Foundation of Counseling Relationships
The `Problem′ as a Counseling Metaphor
The Relational Self
Hearing the Hidden Messages
PART TWO: THE TRIAD TRAINING MODEL
Positive and Negative Internal Dialogue in Counseling
Training Implications of Hidden Messages
Developing Multicultural Competencies with the Triad Training Model
PART THREE: TRANSCRIPT APPLICATIONS OF THE TRIAD TRAINING MODEL
Sexual Harassment, Juvenile Delinquency, Political Affiliation and Lesbian Life Style as Multicultural Issues and International Applications of the Triad Training Model
Transcript Examples of the Triad Training Model
Other Internal Dialogue Training Models
The Intrapersonal Context of Counseling