TY - BOOK AU - Parham, Thomas A AU - Parham,Thomas A TI - Counseling Persons of African Descent: Raising the Bar of Practitioner Competence SN - 0803953461 U1 - O66.7 PY - 2002/// CY - Delhi PB - Sage Publications Ltd KW - Mental Health N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Counseling african Americans: the current state of Affairs.........1 African -centered psychology: basic principles.......10 Understanding african American mental Health: The necessity of new conceptual paradigms ........25 Understanding personality and how to measures it ...........38 Reconceptualizing the notion of self from the african deep structure.............52 African-centered conceptualizations of Self and consciousness : the Akan Model ..........75 Counseling models for African Americans .....100 Counseling african american fathers : A program ..............119 Raising the bar for what passes as competence ......141 ER -