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Culture and psychotherapy : a guide to clinical practice

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, [2001]

The editors (both are faculty members of the Cultural Psychiatry Study Group at the U. of Hawaii School of Medicine) provide an overview of the cultural aspects of psychotherapy as an introduction to the 16 papers that follow, all by psychiatrists. The different cultures considered include Asian American, Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and European American, with individual chapters on medication, ethnic transference in therapy, the severe trauma of Southeast Asian refugees, marital counseling for intercultural couples, and group therapy with multiethnic members.

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Subject: Psychiatry, Transcultural
Psychotherapy
Cultural psychiatry
Cross-cultural counseling
Publication Year:2001
Language:English
Published:Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, [2001]
ISBN:9780880489553
0880489553
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
Culture and psychotherapy: an overview / Wen-Shing Tseng -- Case presentations and analysis. The man who became a child in the face of death / Jon Streltzer -- The woman with one foot in the past / M. Fakhr El-Islam -- The woman who could not escape her spirit song / Louise Jilek-Aall, Wolfgang G. Jilek -- The woman who alienated her family after losing her son / Alan A. Buffenstein -- One patient, three therapists / Barry S. Carlton -- Special issues in therapy. Lessons from folk healing practices / Richard J. Castillo -- Therapist-patient relations and ethnic transference / David M. Bernstein -- Psychological aspects of giving and receiving medications / Iqbal Ahmed -- Treating special populations. The African American / Howard C. Blue, Ezra E.H. Griffin -- The Hispanic veteran / Jose M. CaƱive, Diane T. Castillo, Vicente B. Tuason -- The Southeast Asian refugee: the legacy of severe trauma / J. David Kinzie -- The adolescent / Danilo E. Ponce -- The ethnic minority elderly / F.M. Baker, Junji Takeshita -- Special models of therapy. Marital therapy for intercultural couples / Jing Hsu -- Group therapy with multiethnic members / Leslie Ann Matsukawa -- Integration and conclusions / Wen-Shing Tseng, John Streltzer
Course: CP601

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (4/F) 616.8914 CUL 2001 Available