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Author:

MIRSKY Julia;

Title:

Working through countertransference blocks in cultural-competence training.

Reference:

Psychoanalytic Social Work, 18(2), July-December 2011, pp.136-148.

ISSN paper:

1522-8878

ISSN online:

1522-9033

Abstract:

There are three basic elements necessary for effective cross-cultural practice in the helping professions: cultural awareness; culture-specific knowledge; and culture attuned skills. Yet, the encounter with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds may stir in the practitioners intense countertransferencial reactions, which if unexplored may obstruct the helping relationships and interventions. This article presents and demonstrates a cultural competence training where such countertransference can be worked through. It shows how cultural-competence training can address practitioners’ emotional reactions, which may interfere with the provision of appropriate service to clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. The training applies a combination of narrative analysis that emphasises the active participation of the listener in the sense-making process and of the exploration of group processes from a psychoanalytically oriented point of view. Four vignettes are presented that demonstrate different types of countertransference and of the group process outlined.

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Format:

article;

Topics:

multicultural approach; psychology; psychotherapy; social work; training;

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