Professional Documents
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Cultural Sensitive Psychotherapy and PTSD U & Psychotherapy
Cultural Sensitive Psychotherapy and PTSD U & Psychotherapy
Why?
Need for a Culturally Adapted Approach
1:
Simmons (2010)
One Size Fits All?
• Greek Mythology
Procrustean Fit – Early example
(fitting person to the model)
External Validity
Social Validity
• Acceptability and viability of the intervention by the
community
Underutilization of services
High levels of discontinuity
Poor adherence
Poor results
Misdiagnoses
Inadequate treatment
Case: Cultural Formulation
1
Sue, Arredondo, & McDavis (1992, p.481); 2Sue & Sue (2008); 3Sue et al. (1982); 4Collins & Arthur (2010, p.210)
Professional Guidelines
• American Psychological Association’s 6 general guidelines1:
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American Psychological Association (2002)
CLINICAL CULTURAL COMPETENCE
• Dimensions
Knowledge (What To Know)
Skills (How to do…)
Attitudes (How to be…)
KNOWLEDGE
• Discussion
KNOWLEDGE
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Cultural Formulation Interview
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Cultural Perceptions of Cause … Stressors … Supports
Stresses… money
… family
How would you describe
your problem?
resources, social
supports, and resilience
spiritual reason
• Ethnicity • Experiences
• Race • Education
• Country of origin • Other identified groups
• Language • Sexual orientation
• Gender • Migration/Flight/War/Terror
• Age history
• Marital status • Level of acculturation/adaption
• Religious/ spiritual beliefs
Personality
• Addressing personality,
culture, and universal
needs / motives are all
part of a holistic
conceptualization of the
client and their
challenges1–4.
Leong (1996); 2Leong (2007); 3Sue & Sue (2008); 4Hofstede, Hofstede & Minkov (2010)
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The “Big 5”of Personality1
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McCrae, Yik, Trapnell, Bond, & Paulhus (1998); 2McCrae & Terracciano (2005a)
Explanatory Models
• Moral
• Moral defect: lazy, selfish, weak will
• Try fix character flaw: “just have to work harder”
• Spiritual/ religious
• Transgressions—”angered higher power”
• Interventions—atonement/ religious leader
• Magical
• Hex/ sorcery/ witchcraft
• find person caused/ healer
• Medical—biological model
• Psychological conflict
Therapeutic Relationship
• Interethnic Transference
• Patient’s response to an ethno-culturally different clinician
• Interethnic Counter-transference
• Ethno-culturally different clinician may respond in non-therapeutic
manner
• Denial of cultural influence on clinical encounter
Cultural Influences On Transference
How it is in Kurdistan?
Self-Coping
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Barriers
stigma, shaming,
discrimination
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Preferences
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CFI function provided by 12 supplementary modules to use in
subsequent sessions
1. Explanatory Model
2. Level of Functioning
3. Social Network
4. Psychosocial Stressors
5. Spirituality, Religion, and Moral Traditions
6. Cultural Identity
7. Coping and Help-Seeking
8. Patient–Clinician Relationship
9. School-Age Children and Adolescents
10. Older Adults
11. Immigrants and Refugees
12. Caregivers
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CULTURE IN DSM-V
CULTURAL FORMULATION
CULTURE IN DSM-V
CULTURAL FORMULATION
• Groupwork:
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Haloperidol in serum (ng)
Asiatic Caucasian
Keh-Ming Lin, MD, MPH
Harbor-UCLA Research & Education Institute,
Torrance, CA
Orientation to Therapy: Overview
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Hwang (2006)
Orientation:
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Sue & Zane (1987); 2Sue & Sue (2008); 3Lafromboise, Trimble, & Mohatt (1990), 4Al-Krenawi & Graham (2000), 5Li & Kim (2004);
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Kim, Li, &, Liang (2002); 7Rossello, Bernal, & Rivera-Medina (2008)
Responding to Expectations:
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Hwang (2009); 2 Sue (1998); 3Gonzalez-Prendes, Hindo, & Pardo (2011)
Establishing Goals/Structure:
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Hwang (2006)
Cultural Beliefs:
Hwang (2006); 2Hays (2009); 3Sue & Sue (2008, pp.180, 254, 256); 4Hwang (2009)
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Holistic, Psychoeducational Approach:
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Sue & Sue (2008, p.370); 2Hwang (2009)
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