Cross-cultural Psychotherapy Research Articles

Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy

Cross-Cultural Counseling and Psychotherapy

Cultural aspects of psychotherapy.

This paper deals with the relevance of cultural factors to the application of psychotherapy. It is divided into two parts: cultural psychotherapy and crosscultural psychotherapy. Cultural psy

Cross-cultural psychotherapy.

One of the major obstacles in the development of mental health services in large areas of the non-Western world is the difficulty in making culture- and language-specific adaptations of Western scientific approaches. Individual psychotherapy is a powerful tool in the generation of such culture-specific concepts; it can be a highly useful technique for transcultural psychiatry. Toward this goal the author proposes a basic model which involves two therapists, one representing each culture, together with additional consultation depending upon their degree of cultural "fit."

Cross-cultural psychotherapy.

Cross-cultural psychotherapy.