This textbook is an effort to bring together the current practices, values, attitudes and beliefs about counselling and therapeutic interventions in multicultural populations in Western countries. Although there has been an increased effort to understand the role of culture in counselling practice and therapeutic interventions, there is a dearth of research/ literature on multicultural populations outside the United States. To redress this, this book compares counselling and therapeutic models and practice with multicultural populations across different
Western countries, highlighting the issues and challenges of therapeutic approaches and counselling theory and practice with minorities and sometimes governmental/political considerations in these countries. It explores the way forward regarding service delivery for the mental health of minorities in Western countries and the counselling and therapy they receive. The book is unique as it serves to share knowledge so that insights drawn from one country can be shared across all Western countries, as well as across the globe.

Lena Robinson was Professor of Social Work at the University of the West of Scotland and has been a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Social Work at the University of Birmingham, UK.. She has researched and published widely in the field of race, ethnicity, culture, Psychology and social work practice. Robinson has conducted studies on the adaptation and integration of Muslim youth in Western societies. Her recent publications include ‘Radicalisation, extremism and social work practice: Minority Muslim youth in the West’, Routledge 2022 and ‘Crosscultural child development for social workers’, Palgrave/Macmillan. Her earlier publications include Psychology for social workers: Black perspectives, Routledge/
Taylor &. Francis, 2012).
Nicholas Banks has a forensic private practice with international connections in Africa and the Middle East. He has been a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, UK. He was a Lecturer in Social Work (psychology, child development and communicating with children) at the University of Birmingham, UK and a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Nottingham, UK (counselling and special educational needs). He is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist. Dr Banks has worked as an Educational Psychologist. He has research and publication interests in attachment, fostering and adoption, parenting skills, abuse issues, substance abuse related to parenting, and black children and families, issues of identity and counselling and psychotherapy, special educational needs and autism. He published the first evidence based British book on cross-cultural counselling (Avebury Publishers) in 1999.