Family transcultural consultation : the borders of care / Alfredo Ancora.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ancora, Alfredo.

Series:

Family Issues in the 21st Century

Family issues in the 21st century

Standardized Title:

Consulenza transculturale della famiglia. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Family psychotherapy--Cross-cultural studies.

Family psychotherapy.

Psychiatry, Transcultural.

Cultural psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book reviews research on the topic of mindsets among families in various cultures, as well as the role of the 'border worker'. Migration processes, family reunifications, mixed couples, pathologies of transition, syndromes caused by uprooting are daily issues in our outpatient clinics, hospitals and services. The psychologist, the psychotherapist, the social worker, and the nurse each takes on a new role of 'border worker', which is specified by pre-defined methodological and professional grids and yet is also shaped by the multiple realities and different levels that it requires to make contact with. There is a need for renewed ways of thinking and intervening which are more flexible, open and 'nomadic'.

Contents:

A few premises

The culture of meeting

Cultural processes and migratory processes

The services provided by mental health centres as cultural extensions into the territory

Transcultural consultation and foreign families

"between saying and doing" : "contaminated therapies".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-149) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61209-075-3