HANDBOOK OF CULTURE, THERAPY, AND HEALING
Uwe P. Gielen, Jefferson M. Fish, Juris G. Draguns (Eds.)
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The reader will learn psychological, anthropological, psychiatric, and related disciplines' perspectives on the interaction of cultural, social, psychological, and biological variables as they influence therapy, counseling, and psychological healing. The reader will learn broad theoretical and survey perspectives as well as specifics from healing traditions in Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Arab world. This has clinical and research application to those who deal with multicultural issues.
This book provides a broad overview of Western and non-Western healing, psychotherapeutic traditions, and counseling traditions as these span the divide between psychosocial, anthropological, medical, and religious approaches. The emphasis is on social interaction between healers, therapists, counselors, and their clients, as well as on the cultural belief systems shaping these interactions. The book is based on the assumptions that culture influences pervasively: what we experience as distressing; to whom, if anyone, we communicate our suffering; and whether healing takes place publicly or privately, what we consider to be a successful outcome, how our bodies react, and other health-related actions, beliefs, and feelings.
Uwe P. Gielen, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and director of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology at St. Francis College. He is a former president of both the International Council of Psychologists (ICP) and the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR). Recent coedited volumes include Migration: Immigration and Emigration in International Perspective and Families in Global Perspective.
Jefferson M. Fish, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at St. John's University. His most recent books are Culture and Therapy: An Integrative Approach and Race and Intelligence: Separating Science from Myth.
Juris G. Draguns, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of clinical psychology at The Pennsylvania State University. He is coeditor of five editions of Counseling Across Cultures, Volume 6: Psychopathology in the six-volume Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Personality and Person Perception Across Cultures.
13 CE credits; 385 pages
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