This paper considers the dilemmas and questions raised in cross-cultural work when it is
supposed that patients have been damaged by their culture of origin. First, the legitimacy of …

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

The multiculturalist agenda seeks to compensate for some of the antipathies and confusions
arising in encounters when practitioner and patient are said to be from different cultures. It …

Cross-cultural psychotherapy has striven to refine its intervention strategies during the last 2
decades. However, many authors have noted that these advances seem disconnected from …

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

The meaning of ethnocultural difference: Its impact on and use in the psychotherapeutic process
Page 1 The authors describe common ethnocultural issues arising in psychotherapy and …

This book confronts the barriers that face the cross-cultural application of western
psychotherapy. It puts forward an argument for applying culture analysis, in which the …

Every culture is a different world with its unique beliefs and psychology; so, at least, there
are as many different worlds as there are religions and psychologies. Attempts have been …

This article questions some of the assumptions which seem to be implicit in discussion about
intercultural psychotherapy. It questions the kind of language used in such discussions, as …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the effects of cultural influences on
psychotherapy. The increasing recognition of cultural influences in the psychotherapeutic …