Counseling for Empowerment

"Provides a broad understanding of the concept of empowerment and offers practical suggestions for counselors, psychologists, and social workers who wish to help their clients empower themselves. McWhirter explores the nature of counseling from feminist, multicultural, community psyichology, social work, educational, and nursing perspectives. She successfully bridges the gap between theory and practice by including empowerment techniques for counselors and their clients and incorporating detailed case examples throughout the text. This book also contains applications of counseling for empowerment in work with people of color; gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients; clients with HIV and AIDS; people with disabilities; survivors of violence; adolescents and older adults; and the "non-beautiful"."--Back cover