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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.
Ethics and Governance in Transcultural Counselling
Ethics and Governance in Transcultural Counselling
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This chapter works through current ethical issues of transcultural counselling, derived from the concepts of law and international human rights. It describes ethical principles and governance common to many counselling bodies, and compares them to ethical values in diverse practice. It shows how ethics improves quality of supervision, client care, client trust, counselling research, including capacity to consent in counselling, and refers to the dangers of dual relationships.
Introduction
So far readers have been introduced to the development of transcultural counselling and some of the newer contexts for its application in a restless world. The following chapters look at key professional priorities for the individual practitioner in counselling structures and wider service systems. Although explored separately, ...
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