Bread & Spirit - Therapy with the New Poor - Diversity of Race, Culture, & Values

"This is not another how-to book, although it is practical and applied. Instead, it is a book that addresses the tough situations and quandries facing therapists working with clients who differ from them in culture, ethnicity, lifestyle, or beliefs." --Contemporary Psychology Stressing culture, community and choice, this book outlines a therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than because they lack bread. It urges therapists to recognize and work with spiritual forces in the poor and to avoid opportunistic practical solutions that assume that they are too poor, hungry and downtrodden to care about meaning and purpose.