The Heart of Curiosity

• Published in: PsycCritiques Vol. 53; no. 33; p. No Pagination Specified
• Main Author: Knight, Tracy A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Psychological Association 13.08.2008
• Subjects: Cultural Sensitivity; Curiosity; Empathy; Human; Psychotherapeutic Processes; Therapist Characteristics
• ISSN: 1554-0138; 1554-0138
• DOI: 10.1037/a0012428

Reviews the book, Inclusive cultural empathy: Making relationships central in counseling and psychotherapy by Paul B. Pedersen, Hugh C. Crethar, and Jon Carlson (see record 2008-00798-000). This book represents the most comprehensive and usable work on multicultural issues in therapy to date, accomplishing its stature through its careful development of its constructs and their applications. More impressively, it accomplishes its laudable goals by both providing readers with a framework for enhancing effective empathy toward clients and offering numerous tools for bringing that framework to life. This book encourages the development of two human attributes that the reviewer considers central to therapeutic excellence: humility and curiosity. The book accomplishes its goals not through generating new categories in which to place our clients but rather by illuminating a pathway through which we can change ourselves. The reviewer highly recommends this book not only for graduate clinical psychology courses but also to every practicing psychologist. No one will finish this book without having learned important lessons that improve one's clinical efficacy and, it can be argued, one's life. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)