Intercultural Psychotherapy For Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers
This book is intended to sensitise psychotherapists, to strengthen practitioners’ intercultural competence and to encourage them to form psychotherapeutic relationships with people with an immigration background who are suffering from mental health proble
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Intercultural Psychotherapy
Meryam Schouler-Ocak Marianne C. Kastrup Editors
Intercultural Psychotherapy For Immigrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Ethnic Minority Patients
Editors Meryam Schouler-Ocak Psychiatric University Clinic of Charité at St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin Germany
Marianne C. Kastrup Copenhagen Denmark
ISBN 978-3-030-24081-3 ISBN 978-3-030-24082-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24082-0 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
Psychotherapy in its various forms is indispensable in psychiatric practice worldwide, in scarce resource as well as in high-income countries. As professionals, we have an obligation to make our best efforts to ensure that psychotherapy is available to people who need it. Creating the conditions for this, which allow well-trained practitioners to provide good-quality care where and when it is required, either directly or through training and supervision of health and community workers, rests with professional associations, civil society and governments. They need to be united in recognising needs and solutions. It is well known, however, that the shortcomings in health-care resources and the organisation of services make this an aspiration rather than a reality in almost all countries. The editors define intercultural therapy as the therapeutic work between psychotherapists and patients stemming from different cultural contexts with the consequent hampering of language- and culture-based understanding. They point out that in today’s world, intercultural psychotherapy may well become the rule rather than the exception. The intercultural aspects are relevant to psychother
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