Description
Book Synopsis"With its diversity throughout including almost 40 authors from different therapeutic modalities, continents and professional fields the book indeed is both an âinvitation and challengeâ and a means âto aid transcultural therapists in conducting their work in a sensitive and informed mannerâ. It brings to mind a colourful and well stocked market comprising two parts. The first provides nourishing food for practitioners such as contributions to theory, use of interpreters, training, supervision, research and case studies. The second offers an outstanding exploration of the impact of different cultural backgrounds orchestrated by the editor, whose compilation from a UK perspective might be a useful example for other cultural and language areas. The involved reader will be delighted to have this inspiring handbook to hand."Gerhard Stumm, Ph.D., psychotherapy trainer, Vienna
"Therapists pride themselves on cherishing the uniqueness of every client. This book offers a po
Table of Contents
The editor and contributors
Foreword by John McLeod
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Ensuring Professional Practice in Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy
Introduction to Part 1: towards Enhancing Professional Competence-From Training to Research to Practice
Training for multicultural therapy: The challenge and the experience
Training for Multi-cultural Therapy - The Course Curriculum
Training for ‘Multicultural’ Therapy: The community role of the training department/ institution
Identity Development and its impact on the therapy relationship
On ethnic matching: A review of the research and considerations for practice, training and policy
Working with interpreters and bicultural workers
Issues for white therapists
Issues for psychological therapists from black and minority ethnic groups
Overcoming racism, discrimination and oppression in psychotherapy
Research in transcultural counselling and psychotherapy
Culturally sensitive supervision
Psychotherapeutic work at Nafsiyat
A relational understanding of working interculturally with survivors of torture
Part 2: Heritage and Identity Formation: Transition and Identity Transformation
Introduction to Part 2: Addressing the issues of description, ascription, projection, and British heritage
International students - who are they?
On being an asylum seeker
The effects of an African heritage
The effects of an Australian heritage: Counselling in a land down under
The effects of an African Caribbean heritage: Living as a problem
The effects of a European heritage: Between two chairs
The effects of an Eastern European heritage
The effects of an Irish heritage
The effects of a Middle Eastern (Iranian) heritage
The effects of a North American heritage
The effects of South American heritage
The effects of a Pakistani heritage
The effects of a Bangladeshi heritage: The smell of spice
The effects of an Indian heritage: Cultural reminiscences
The effects of a Chinese heritage
The effects of a Japanese heritage
Index
