Counselling in Cambodia: cultural competence and contextual costs
The term ‘counselling’ is often used to describe psychosocial interventions. The concept appears to have different meanings to different people. In this contribution to this journal, we will describe an attempt to introduce a classical type of counselling, ‘individual talk-therapy’, in a psychosocial and mental health program in Cambodia. We use this example to explore two different aspects. First, we show how talk-therapy can be effective in a cross-cultural setting. Overcoming cultural barriers is possible, and in this sense we want to make a case for a ‘culturally informed’ design of intervention. Then, we will discuss the relevance of this intervention in the context of other interventions in the same setting. We shall also argue that this intervention is often not applicable for practical reasons, rather than cultural ones.
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Reference:
Willem van de Put; Guus van der Veer | 2005
In: Intervention: the international journal of mental health, psychosocial work and counselling in areas of armed conflict, ISSN 1571-8883 | 3 | 2 | 87-96
http://www.interventionjournal.com/sites/default/files/087_096_Put.pdf
In: Intervention: the international journal of mental health, psychosocial work and counselling in areas of armed conflict, ISSN 1571-8883 | 3 | 2 | 87-96
http://www.interventionjournal.com/sites/default/files/087_096_Put.pdf