Outlines a method of teaching and learning counseling and psychotherapy that can be used in the global market

Highlights cultural dimension of therapy with an emphasis on cultural empathy, cultural assessment, cultural formulations, and culturally-sensitive interventions

Promotes learning and mastery of those competencies which beginning and experienced therapists find most challenging such as developing brief case conceptualization, finding and maintaining a treatment focus, increasing motivation to change, and resolving resistance, ambivalence, transference, and countertransference enactments