[Psychotherapy with traumatised migrants from Turkey: taking into account cultural factors]

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 2008 Mar-Apr;58(3-4):169-75. doi: 10.1055/s-2008-1067350.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Culture-specific concepts of health and disease, cultural values, and other culture-specific factors can influence the outcome of psychotherapeutic interventions in migrant patients. In this article, culture-specific factors, and specifically, their role in sexually traumatized migrant patients from Turkey, are reviewed and illustrated with two case reports. The influence of culture-specific factors on trauma-focussed psychotherapy is being discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Acculturation
  • Adult
  • Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / psychology*
  • Child
  • Child Abuse, Sexual / ethnology*
  • Child Abuse, Sexual / psychology
  • Cultural Competency*
  • Emigrants and Immigrants / psychology*
  • Female
  • Gender Identity
  • Germany
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Psychotherapy / methods*
  • Shame
  • Social Identification
  • Social Values
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / diagnosis
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / ethnology*
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / therapy
  • Turkey / ethnology