Culturally Responsive Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Practice ...

3 INTRODUCTIONPAMELA A. HAYSS helby1 is a 28-year-old, recently divorced woman who was referred for counseling by her physician who could find no medical reason for her frequent digestion problems and stomachaches. At your first meeting, Shelby tells you she is a nursing student and hospital health aide, and she lives with her parents, who babysit her 3-year-old daughter while she is at work or in school. She reports that she has always been a good student and likes her job, but the workload now feels overwhelming, and her supervisor is frequently upset with her for being late and for occasional mistakes she makes when tired. In addition, she says a couple of her coworkers have turned against her and report any little mistakes she makes to the supervisor, which makes matters worse. She has only 1 year left to obtain her nursing degree, but she is starting to wonder whether she can do it all.

2I use the term multicultural therapy (MCT) as shorthand for the field of clinical and counseling psychology that focuses on diversity. However, I do not consider MCT a therapy in the sense that CBT is a therapy;

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