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Culturally Competent Family Therapy

Posted By: Shlomo Ariel
Date: Sunday, 27 February 2000, at 8:21 a.m.

Ariel, Shlomo, Culturally Competent Family Therapy, Westport/Connecticut: Greenwood/Praeger (a hard-cover and a paperback editions, October 1999).

This book is a general introduction to an integrative approach to culturally competent family diagnosis and therapy. It is also relevant to individual psychotherapy. It integrates concepts, methods and research findings from various schools of psychotherapy and family therapy, cross-cultural psychology, anthropology and psychiatry, and linguistics. All these are incorporated in a theoretical framework whose concepts and terms are borrowed from information processing theory, general systems theory and semiotics. Culturally competent diagnostic instruments are adapted from linguistics and cultural anthropology.
Intervention methods are systematically eclectic, and incorporate both indigenous, traditional techniques and modern techniques.
Dr. Ariel is the SEPI coordinator in Israel, and Chair of the Israeli Association of Psychotherapy Integration, and Co-Director of the Integrative Psychotherapy Center, Ramat Gan, Israel