Understanding gender and culture in the helping process : practitioners' narratives from global perspectives / Claire Low Rabin.

A. Individual and Family Leel Helping

B. Group Level Helping

C. Service and Community Level Helping

Chapter 1: Gender and Culture in the Helping Process: A Professional Journey/

Chapter 10: Triple Oppression: Mexican and Mexican American Women Living in the United States/

Chapter 11: Emotional Isolation, Depression, and Suicide among African American Men/

Chapter 12: Restructuring Social Identity Through Self-Categorizing Groups: The Interface of Group Dynamics, Gender, and Culture

Chapter 13: Facilitating Telling of Stories Through Psychodynamic Groups: Traumatized Women in the Former Yugoslavia/

Chapter 14: Immigrant Women, Abortion, and Preventive Intervention in Italy/

Chapter 15: Violence Against Women in the Family: Immigrant Women and the U.S. Health Care System/

Chapter 16: The Therapeutic Value of Activism: Albanian Women in Postwar Kosova/

Chapter 17: The Road to Multicultural Sensitive Student Supervision: Ethiopian Social Work Students in Israel/

Chapter 2: Globalization of the Human Services: Exporting High-Cultural Artifacts and the Selling of the Therapy Industry as a Form of Neocolonialism/

Chapter 3: Gender and Culture in the Narrative Approach to Helping/

Chapter 4: Mental Health Practice for the Muslim Arab Population in Israel/

Chapter 5: Gender and Culture Issues in Helping Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse and Violence/

Chapter 6: Social and Cultural Issues in Male Sex Problems/

Chapter 7: Pride and Prejudice With Gay and Lesbian Individuals: Combining Narrative and Expressive Practices/

Chapter 8: Helping Immigrant Women From the Former Soviet Union/

Chapter 9: Posttraumatic Experiences of Refugee Women/

Foreword/

Introduction: A Narrative About This Book/

Part I: Conceptual Basis

Part II: Gender, Culture, and Stress: Multilevel Helping Processes

Includes bibliographies and index.

Overview -- A Professional Journey -- Gender and the Helping Process -- Culture in the Helping Process -- Commonalities Between Approaches Focusing on Gender and on Culture -- Gender and Culture: Clashes and Conflicts -- Integrating Gender and Culture -- The Postmodern Narrative Revolution -- The Use of Both Modernist and Postmodernist Principlesin Practice -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Australia as a Host Country -- Settlement and Adjustment -- Refugee Women -- Effects and Symptoms of Trauma -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Culture and Gender Issues and Sexuality in Irish Society -- Sexual Problems in the Context of Irish Society -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion

Overview -- Description of the Problem: Prevalence -- Description of the Problem: Theoretical Underpinnings -- Defining Abuse -- Assessment and Interventions: Understanding the Cultural Context -- Assessment and Intervention: Battered Immigrant Women and Health Care Services -- Assessment and Intervention: Screening for IPV in the Clinical Setting -- Intervention: Addressing IPV in Immigrant Communities -- Intervention: Legal and Policy Prevention Strategies -- Mandatory Reporting -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusions.

Overview -- Historical and Sociocultural Experiences -- Understanding the Adolescent Connection -- Underutilization of Counseling -- Counseling Methods and Strategies -- Group Work -- Dealing Openly With Racism -- Establishing Rapport -- Understanding the Influence of Personal Biases -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Identity and Society -- The Narrative Metaphor -- Clinical Example -- Poststructuralism and Identity -- Narrative Practices -- Witnessing -- Beginning -- Listening -- Naming Problems -- Clinical Example -- Thinking About the Discourses Within Which Problematic Stories Are Situated -- Clincial Example -- Deconstructing Problematic Stories -- Developing Preferred Stories -- Clinical Example -- Thickening Preferred Stories -- Creating an Audience -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Introduction -- Culture and Child Sexual Abuse and Violence -- Gender and Child Sexual Abuse -- Helping Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Violence -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Introduction -- Expectations Versus Difficulties -- Two Approaches to Culture -- Minimizing Cultural Differences in Supervision -- Magnifying Cultural Differences in Supervision -- A Multicultural Approach to Supervision -- Constructing Multicultural Sensitive Supervisory Discourse -- Conclusions.

Overview -- Introduction -- Homophobia -- Internalized Homophobia -- Heterosexism -- Understanding Identity Development and Its Social Context -- Prejudice in the Helping Encounter -- Pride and Prejudice in Israel: The Social Context -- The Contribution of the Narrative Approach in Challenging Homophobia -- Combining Expressive Arts with Narrative Therapy -- Personal Reflections -- Key Concepts.

Overview -- Introduction -- The Problem: Globalization and Its Effects in Human Services -- Colonialism and Neocolonialism -- Colonization of the Mind -- Power -- Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism -- Ethnocentrism in Western Psychological Theories: Examples -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Introduction -- The Shaping of Identity -- A Model of Reconstructing Aspects of Social Identity Through Self-Categorizing Groups -- Application -- Self-Categorizing Groups and Individual Transformation -- Intervention Opportunities -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Sociopolitical Context and Ethnic Identity -- Trauma in Political Context -- Case Material: Groupwork With Traumatized Women -- The Use of Psychodynamic Group Methods for Trauma as a Result of Political Upheaval -- Methods -- Free Association -- Transference and Countertransference -- Dream Interpretation -- The "Containing Function" of the Group -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Systemic Family Therapy -- Migration in Italy and Health Services: The Problem of Abortion -- Methodology of the Intervention -- The Assessment Interview -- Two Case Studies -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion.

Overview -- The Arab Israelis in Context -- Arab Women -- Clinical Responses to the Challenges of Working With the Muslim Arab Population in Israel -- Conclusion.

Overview -- The Problem of Triple Oppression: External Issues of Power and Opression Related to Culture, Gender, and Class -- Race, Discrimination, and Stereotyping -- Socioeconomic Status and Class Issues -- Gender Issues -- Issues Related to Immigration -- Treatment Issues -- Coping and Language -- Useful Methods for Helping Chicanas -- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy -- Family Therapy -- Narrative Therapy -- Prevention-Oriented Community Education -- Feminist Therapy -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion.

Overview -- The Problem -- The Kosovar Albanian Population -- The Kanun -- Comparison of the Kanun and CEDAW -- Maternity and Maternal Mortality Rates -- Male and Female Offsprings' Access to Family Inheritance -- Child Custody -- Domestic Violence -- Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome -- The Meanings of Authority and Participation in Public Life -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusion.

Overview -- Women Immigrants from FSU: The Nature of the Experience and Its Aftermath -- Unique Characteristics of the Immigration From the FSU -- Phases in the Immigration Process -- Immigrant Women -- Serving Women Immigrants From the Former Soviet Union -- Barriers to Services Provision -- Principles for Providing Services to Women Immigrants From FSU -- Personal Reflections -- Conclusions.

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