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Cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy: An existential-psychological approach

✍ Scribed by Farah A. Ibrahim

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1984
Tongue: English
Weight: 630 KB
Volume: 7
Category: Article
ISSN: 0165-0653
DOI: 10.1007/bf00116188

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✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this presentation is to propose a paradigm for cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy based on existential philosophy that may be applicable to and can be adapted to apply in cultures around the world. Counseling and psychotherapy have similar functions, i.e., to alleviate.distress, to reintegrate the client into his or her culture and to enable the client to respond to cultural roles and to me~et cultural expectations. In general, counseling facilitates and fosters effective problem-solving and psychotherapy is concerned with changing persons, their modes of experience and behavior, i.e., personalities. Since no clear dividing line can be drawn between these two activities, it is fair to assume that there is a great degree of similarity between these two activities (Draguns, 1981). Cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy has been an area of interest for nearly two decades in the United States (Sue, 1983). A number of approaches to cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy have been proposed (

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