Promotes culture-specific counseling approach, which starts with the culture and its people and searches out natural helping styles. Uses case model drawn from African-Igbo culture and applies anthropological constructs that seek to discover more culturally sensitive approach to counseling theory, to training in counseling skills and knowledge,…

Suggests that mental-health professionals broaden treatment plans to include more attention to wider sociocultural and sociopolitical issues. Argues for placing traditional treatment strategies within a broader contextual framework. Recommends that counselors begin thinking like public mental-health professionals who view the appropriate level of…