Examines how psychotherapy serves as an instrument of culture, drawing on a cultural and
narrative view. The usefulness of this view is illustrated with a case that follows. Implications …

This article introduces the special issue on cultural processes in psychotherapy. The special
section was organized to highlight both the clinical and research aspects of the cultural …

Culture pervades psychotherapy regardless of whether the psychotherapy is intracultural or
obviously cross-cultural. This paper looks toward an integration of cultural awareness and …

Argues that practical frameworks need to be developed that allow therapists to constructively
engage cultural issues. The primary purpose of the chapter is to make culture more …

A cultural opportunity is 1 of 3 pillars within multicultural orientation framework; it is defined
as a moment in therapy when aspects of a client's background emerge, which can be deeply …

Worldwide, increases in population growth and mobility have resulted in a society that is
increasingly multicultural in nature. Forced and voluntary migration, economic globalization …

Obviously, an individual's physio-socio-cultural environment exerts a profound influence
upon him; it serves to channel his instinctual impulses, at least in part, thus determining his …

In an early statement (Draguns, 1975), psychotherapy was construed “as a series of
reinitiation techniques for reentry into a fuller, more efficient participation in society …

FOR A LONG TIME I have been interested in observing how quickly many technical words
come to be used in everyday language, often a bit glibly and with an easy familiarity seldom …

Since culture determines what people regard as real and unreal, normal and abnormal, it
follows that what is considered therapeutic will also be steeped in the prevailing cultural …