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| Year : 2005 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 87-96 |
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Counselling in Cambodia: cultural competence and contextual costs
Willem van de Put1, Guus van der Veer2
1 medical anthropologist and director of Health Net-TPO as well as a member of the Editorial Council of Intervention
2 psychologist-psychotherapist and mental health consultant, as well as Chief Editor of Intervention
Correspondence Address:
Willem van de Put
medical anthropologist and director of Health Net-TPO as well as a member of the Editorial Council of Intervention.
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
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The term ‘counselling’ is often used to describe psychosocial interventions. The concept appears to have different meanings to different people. In this contribution to this journal, we will describe an attempt to introduce a classical type of counselling, ‘individual talk-therapy’, in a psychosocial and mental health program in Cambodia. We use this example to explore two different aspects. First, we show how talk-therapy can be effective in a cross-cultural setting. Overcoming cultural barriers is possible, and in this sense we want to make a case for a ‘culturally informed’ design of intervention. Then, we will discuss the relevance of this intervention in the context of other interventions in the same setting. We shall also argue that this intervention is often not applicable for practical reasons, rather than cultural ones.
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