Description
Book SynopsisThere are many problems in working psychotherapeutically across cultures, with numerous examples of failure to understand cultural issues. For example, the ignorance of traditional family structures can lead to major diagnostic and therapeutic errors.
Table of ContentsContributors.
Preface to First Edition.
Preface to Second Edition.
Part I: Themes.
1. Towards an Intercultural therapy.
2. The Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre: Ideas and Experience in Intercultural Therapy.
3. How universal Is Something We Can Call "Therapy".
Part II: Interpretations.
4. Interprofessional Consultation: Consultative Approaches in Therapeutic Work Across Cultures.
5. The Doctors Dilemma: The Practice of Cultural Psychiatry in Multicultural Britain.
6. Quantitative Research in Intercultural Therapy: Some Methodological Considerations.
Part III: Practice.
7. The Bradford Experience.
8. Familiar and Unfamiliar Types of Family Structure: Towards a Conceptual Framework.
9. Racism and Psychotherapy; Working with Racism in the Consulting Room; an Analytical View.
10. Inner and Outer Reality in Children and Adolescents.
11. Intercultural Social Work.
12. Therapeutic Approaches with Survivors of Torture.
Appendix.
References and Further Reading.
Index.
