Contemporary Contextualization: Using Cross-Cultural Practice in Sensitive Contexts

Psychological debriefing in cross-cultural contexts: ten implications for practice.

Crisis interventions following exposure to traumatic events have become common in most western and in some non-western countries. The literature regarding early interventions, specifically the use of Psychological Debriefing (PD), is grounded in a western context. Little has been written of its use in different cultural settings. This article focuses on the use of PD in different cultural setti...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS

History of Contemporary Cultural Psychiatry in Iran:

Cultural psychiatry is one of the relatively new trends in psychiatry that has received much attention today. During the last century, many Iranian psychiatrists have taken steps to introduce various aspects of cultural psychiatry from the field of epidemiology to the cultural conceptualization of psychiatric disorders. This article tries to refer to the history of contemporary cultural psychia...

Cross-cultural Empathy and Training the Contemporary Psychotherapist

The diversity of today’s client population has required that psychotherapy training confront the importance of cultural competence in graduates. Approaches in this area of education create dynamic tensions between stressing therapist openness to diversity and therapist knowledge of clients’ cultures. This paper proposes that this attitude-knowledge dilemma in psychotherapy education can be reco...

Cross-disciplinary practice in engineering contexts: a developmental phenomenographical perspective

This paper presents an overview of results from a phenomenographic study that investigates critical differences and similarities in the ways people experience crossdisciplinary practice in engineering contexts. Study implications are discussed regarding developmental perspectives on cross-disciplinary ways of thinking, acting, and being.