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Drawing on over 40 years of experience, Patricia d'Ardenne provides the reader with a unique and practical introduction to counseling and psychotherapy in a world on the move, where ethnic, linguistic, religious, economic, political and environmental differences collide and create a rich and complex setting for contemporary therapeutic practice.
Positioning counseling within the shifting contexts of the modern world, this book: Examines anti-discriminatory practice - its origins and development; The complexities of working effectively with refugees, asylum seekers, vulnerable migrants, and the victims of human trafficking; Considers the needs of the cultural traveler; Address the intricacies of faith and spirituality; Provides a guide to assessing language and the role of interpreters; Addresses ethics, the law and transcultural issues in Healthcare; Looks at the importance of supervision, personal development and self care
Counselling in Transcultural Settings is an essential companion for counselors and psychotherapists at all stages of professional training looking to work beyond their own culture, where the demands of therapy are as dynamic as the political and social contexts within which people seek help.
Future Directions for Transcultural Counselling
Future Directions for Transcultural Counselling
This restless world
Is full of chances, which by habit's power
To learn to bear is easier than to shun.
Summary
This chapter draws together the applications of transcultural counselling, and identifies where core cultural competencies can be developed through professional bodies, as well as through transcultural courses around the world. New directions for transcultural counselling study and practice include: the cultural contexts of interpersonal violence; social exclusion; users” movements; transcultural counselling in travel medicine; working in and with the developing world for global health equality; providing health information for all; and the effects of globalisation on well-being.
Introduction
This book began with the idea of transcultural counselling being as dynamic as the political and social contexts in which people function. ...
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