The profession must be much more sensitive to those from ethnic minorities who commit to psychotherapy training, says Eugene Ellis. Our business is the human condition. We have the tools.

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Black and Asian counselling students often complain that their difference and experience is ignored in counselling training. Eugene Ellis and Niki Cooper discuss the reasons for this failure to acknowledge cultural diversity. Therapy Today, December 2013, Volume 24, Issue 10

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“I don’t feel like chatting my business to anyone” is one of the reasons African-Caribbeans give for not going to a therapist when facing life’s tough challenges. Eugene Ellis says this needs to change.

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Summary: The profession must be much more sensitive to those from ethnic minorities who commit to psychotherapy training, says Eugene Ellis. Our business is the human condition. We have the tools.

The Psychotherapist issue 61: Autumn 2015

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Summary: Black and Asian counselling students often complain that their difference and experience is ignored in counselling training. Eugene Ellis and Niki Cooper discuss the reasons for this failure to acknowledge cultural diversity.

Therapy Today, December 2013, Volume 24, Issue 10

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Summary: “I don’t feel like chatting my business to anyone” is one of the reasons African-Caribbeans give for not going to a therapist when facing life’s tough challenges. Eugene Ellis says this needs to change.

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ABSTRACT: A rainbow-coloured therapeutic community is a term inspired from South Africa’s Rainbow Nation after its 46-year period of apartheid. This term does not just represent the fact that South Africa is diverse but that skin colour was not going to be the defining factor in valuing the needs and wishes of its citizens. In the UK acute mental health services are overrepresented by people of colour. Most would agree that the caring profession should reflect the community that it serves, but will this be enough to reduce the overrepresentation of people of colour in acute services and inspire them to seek a service at an earlier stage? In this article I will look at the current state of play and then look at the efforts people have made to change the situation.

Published: Psychotherapy and Politics International Psychother. Politics. Int. 9(3): 188–193 (2011)

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