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Behind The Book: Q&A with Co-Editors of Counseling With Immigrants, Refugees, and Their Families
Immigrants, refugees and their families face many mental and physical health challenges as they create new homes for themselves in the U.S., and these challenges have not been widely studied or documented. ACA’s recent bookCounseling With Immigrants, Refugees and Their Families From Social Justice Perspectives is a comprehensive resource for counselors who work with these populations, and it provides social justice and multicultural counseling competency frameworks to help them establish best practices for treatment. Counselors will also learn about the vast contributions immigrants and refugees make to this country and how to support their efforts to thrive against the odds.
We spoke with the co-editors to learn more about this book: Patricia Arredondo, EdD, is the president of the Arredondo Advisory Group and a past president of ACA and the Association for Multicultural C
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Nary Manivong Ventures Into Home Decor With Laos Embassy
Designer Nary Manivong’s latest project is an interior one — both personally and professionally.
Manivong, whose parents relocated to the U.S. from Laos in the early ’80s, has been tasked with handling the decor and redesign of the rooms for the Laos UN Mission. The assignment is a meaningful one for Manivong, who along with his twin brother, was born in Ohio in 1982, months after his parents immigrated from Laos through the sponsorship of a church group.
In an interview Thursday, he explained that his parents decided to leave Laos because of the fallout from the Second Indochina war, which is commonly referred to as the “secret war in Laos” as it ran concurrent with the Vietnam War. “Laos is known as the most-bombed [neutral] country in the world per capita, [since the U.S. dropped 4 billion bombs between 1964 and 1973],” he said, noting how daglig children still mistake
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repertory band that performs all over the globe and regularly at venues downtown like the Jazz Standard, will also appear. At a time when the popularity of jazz music has waned and been pushed into a peripheral niche scene, some music critics have declared it dead. But Sue Mingus sees the genre moving forward through a younger generation. Upon listening to the taped submissions of the high school bands participating in the competition, Sue and the other judges were surprised at the level of familiarity and sophistication
the students—most born a decade after Mingus died—brought to the challenging music. "I think it's only a healthy sign that's it's [jazz] becoming much more available to kids, students in schools," Mingus said. "I don't know who the Charlie Parkers, Duke Ellingtons will be, but there will be people expressing themselves through the music whatever color, size, age, gender that they are. If it starts becoming banal and predictable, then we don't have jazz anymore. I'm