He says that if he could go back, he would go to school, he would embrace who he is, he would be honest with family about his sexuality, and he would have found a spiritual life sooner. Bruce is quite spiritual now. He is no longer Baptist, but rather he has taken up belief in the tenets of Buddhism, which he claims has brought him much peace inside as well as has made him more tolerant of others -- including whites.
One interesting fact about Bruce is that he says that he has never had a very strong identity to gay men either -- whether they are white or black. He seems to have a very general isolated attitude about life. He is quite non-trusting of anyone. He does admit to having more of a connectedness with gay men, but he claims that is probably because he felt like those were the men he had to be connected with. He did have a good relationship with his mother as a child, but now he rarely calls her. She is still in the south and is in her eighties. He has some guilt about not being closer to her.
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Arredondo (2010) reviews Pedersen, Draguns, Lonner, & Trimble (2008) book, Counseling across cultures (sixth edition). Arredondo states that with the first edition of the book (1976) the authors opened up an all new space of knowledge for the counseling professions. The book promotes competency development when it comes to cross-cultural counseling, giving unique perspectives that are relevant to those who wish to counsel individual of a multicultural background.
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In Butler-Byrd's (2010) article, she reflects on how as an African-American supervisor working with multicultural diverse backgrounds she has endured challenges and benefited from those challenges.
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Fields' (2010) article looks act different literature on cross-cultural approaches to assessment, research, and clinical practice. He comes up with recommendations for using a 'cultural exchange' approach when working with patients of a multicultural background.
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