Family Process
Volume 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 445-461

A culturally sensitive approach to therapy with immigrant families: The case of Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union (Article)

Slonim-Nevo V. , Sharaga Y. , Mirsky J.*
  • a Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
  • b Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
  • c Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PO Box 151, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel

Abstract

This article is based on accumulated clinical experience in Israel with families that emigrated from the former Soviet Union. It describes a culturally sensitive systemic intervention with two such families: a single-parent family, and a family that exhibited physical violence. Relevant cultural characteristics of family patterns and parent-child relationships in Jewish-Soviet families are reviewed. It is demonstrated how a cross-cultural perspective may affect the interpretation of presented problems and result in a less pathological perspective. It is further illustrated how universal intervention techniques combined with culturally sensitive approaches may produce positive effects in therapy.

Author Keywords

[No Keywords available]

Index Keywords

cultural anthropology Israel psychological aspect Family Therapy human middle aged USSR ethnology Humans male case report female Jew Jews Parent-Child Relations Article migration patient attitude Emigration and Immigration Patient Acceptance of Health Care child parent relation Culture Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0033252177&doi=10.1111%2fj.1545-5300.1999.00445.x&partnerID=40&md5=ca86dcc83a675b6c96bb680010d5859f
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00445.x
ISSN: 00147370
Cited by: 31
Original Language: English