Hidden Messages in Culture-Centered Counseling: A Triad Training 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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Paul B. Pedersen is a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii and professor emeritus at Syracuse University. He has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and for six years at universities in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia. Pedersen was also on the summer school faculty at Harvard University, 1984-988 and the University of Pittsburgh “semester at sea” voyage around the world, spring 1992. International experience includes numerous consulting experiences in Asia, Australia, Africa, South America and Europe, and a Senior Fulbright award teaching at National Taiwan University 1999-2000. He has authored, co-authored or edited 40 books, 99 articles, and 72 chapters on aspects of multicultural counseling and international communication. Pedersen is a fellow in Divisions 9, 17, 45 and 52 of the American Psychological Association.