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(2015) Therapy, culture and spirituality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Cultural challenges when working with people from refugee backgrounds
Rachel Cleary, Robert D. Schweitzer
pp. 208-220
Most commonly, therapeutic work with members of communities from different cultures draws upon the dominant paradigm with its assumptions of what constitutes personhood in people from refugee backgrounds. From a Western perspective people from refugee backgrounds are often perceived as the "abject persons' fleeing from situations of conflict and representing the shadow of the modern nation state, where 'shadow" relates to disavowed aspects of self. In this chapter, we wish to argue that working with integrity with people from refugee backgrounds impels us to examine the assumptions which inform our practice and re-envision psychotherapeutic practice.
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Cleary, R. , Schweitzer, R. D. (2015)., Cultural challenges when working with people from refugee backgrounds, in G. Nolan & W. West (eds.), Therapy, culture and spirituality, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 208-220.
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