Cultural Challenges to Psychosocial Counselling in Nepal

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2394538
AutoresWietse A Tol (0000-0003-2216-0526, Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT)/Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Amsterdam,), Mark J D Jordans (0000-0001-5925-8039, Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT)/Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Amsterdam), Sushama Regmi (Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT)), Bhogendra Sharma (Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT))
Año2005
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas317-333
Fecha de publicación2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTranscultural Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1363-4615 • E-ISSN: 1461-7471
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363461505052670
PMID16114588
OpenAlexW2086648862
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas19

This article describes the way in which the practice of psychosocial counselling was adapted culturally to the context of Nepal within the Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT). After a brief description of the Nepali setting and CVICT's counselling and training approach and the relationship of its psychosocial counselling intervention with existing methods of dealing with psychosocial problems, the cultural challenges of implementing psychosocial counselling and our response to them are sketched along with concepts deemed important in psychosocial counselling. A discussion follows in which the authors' stance on the export of psychosocial counselling to non-western cultures is outlined

Geography · Nepali · Psychosocial · Psychotherapist · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Resilience and Mental Health