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Cross-Cultural Approaches

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TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
Defining cross-cutural Approaches in psychotherapy and counselling
Introduction to Culture and Psychological Therapies: Barriers, Bridges and Stumbling Blocks	Nooria Mehraby

Cross-Culture and Trauma
TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
Psychosocial Impact of the 'War on Terror' on Muslims Settling in Australia	Nooria Mehraby
Counselling Afghanistan Torture and Trauma Survivors	Nooria Mehraby
Community level interventions in working with torture and trauma survivors - nexus between theory and practice	Jasmina Bajraktarevic-Hayward
Culture and Countertransference in Trauma counselling with Refugees	Deborah Gould

Culture, Trauma and Mental Illness
TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
Mental Health, Human Rights and Minorities in Australia	Sev Ozdowski
Muslim religious reflection: implications for mental health care	Hanan Dover
Mental health issues in Muslim communities	Abdul Monaem
Violence and health - learning from the WHO framework	John Macdonald

Child and Adolescent
TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
Depression in children and adolescents: Assessment, awareness and treatment	Syed Naqvi

Cross-Cultural Interventions
TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
Cognitive-behavioural stress managment in a cross-cultural setting	Shehzi Yusaf
Intimate partner violence in the Australian Muslim community: from research to intervention	Nada Ibrahim
Conversation between Rachel Paran and Yishai Shalif: How faith and spirituality help in coping	Rachel Paran
Islamic belief in healing of Trauma; A case study of an Afghan Refugee	Nooria Mehraby

Psychological Perspectives in Cross Cultural Settings
TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
Biology, Multiplicity and Spirituality.	Brendon Stewart

Politics, Cultures, Societies and Trauma
TITLE	SPEAKER	DIFFICULTY
How do we lick our wounds? Intercultural perspectives on individual and collective strategies of making peace with own past	Boris Drozdek

Cross-Cultural Approaches

Many countries have been, forged by subsequent waves of immigration and home to refugees from all over the world. Cultural diversity is the norm rather than the exception, and likely to be encountered by helping professionals on a routine basis. Despite its ubiquitousness, cultural differences can pose significant challenges to clinicians and helpers in general and often become a barrier to effective service provision

It is all too common to see well meaning and competent clinicians become unravelled by the lack of familiar clues and contextual landmarks encountered in working with someone from a radically different culture and world view.

The lectures featured in this section will explore the complexities of working with a culturally diverse client group, and provide some hints and guidelines to assist clinicians and those in the helping professions in general overcome the challenges posed by various aspects of this diversity.

The section will feature lectures from a range of national and international presenters from a range of backgrounds. We are particularly indebted in this section to the input from many STARTTS members, an Australian organization that has assisted over 24,000 refugees in a clinical setting and many more through community development initiatives, and that currently employs over 50 clinicians from as many as 25 different nationalities and ethnic backgrounds.