The problems of a family are often conditioned by the cultural
issues its members face, regardless of their socioeconomic
background. However, most therapeutic models ignore this important
factor. Ariel's book offers a model for diagnosis and therapy that
incorporates cultural issues. It provides clinicians and trainees
with readily applicable concepts, methods, and techniques for
helping families and their members overcome difficulties related to
intermarriage, immigration, acculturation, socioeconomic
inequality, prejudice, and ecological or demographic change. This
approach enables therapists to analyze and describe a family as a
cultural system, explain its culture-related difficulties, and
design and carry out culturally sensitive strategies for solving
these difficulties.
The model introduced in this book integrates theories in family
therapy in general and culturally oriented family therapy in
particular with ideas drawn from many other fields, such as
cross-cultural psychology, psychiatry, anthropology and
linguistics. The form of therapy presented in this book is
integrative, drawing from traditional curing and healing techniques
employed in folk psychotherapy and medicine, in addition to more
conventional therapeutic models. Every technique is modified to be
adapted to the cultural character of the family in question. This
book is designed to be a handbook for clinicians and a textbook for
students, trainees and researchers. It can be used as a guide for a
complete independent method of family therapy and also as a source
of ideas and techniques that can be incorporated selectively into
other forms of therapy.
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