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The Dilemmas of Working with Multi-Cultural Issues

Reenee Singh is Director of the centre for Cross-Cultural Studies. She is also a Systemic Psychotherapist in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic. Reenee has written and published widely in the field of cross-cultural systemic psychotherapy.

Course Objectives

"The purpose of this course is to create a safe space where participants can explore the challenges of intercultural and intra-cultural work from a range of perspectives. The course will address some of the questions raised by living and working in our multicultural society:

• How do we position ourselves within the contexts of discrimination and powerlessness that constitute the worlds inhabited by our clients?
• How do we understand the role of faith in our clients’ belief systems, especially if they are different from our own?
• How do we work with some of the challenges of inter-faith and intercultural couple relationships?
• How do we collaborate with interpreters and bi-cultural workers?
• In which instances do we think that cultural sensitivity is the most important consideration, and when do we privilege the safety of the child or family as the highest context marker?

These questions will be addressed through a formal theory and research presentation, followed by experiential exercises and case vignettes. Participants will be encouraged to bring material from their own agency context for a case consultation at the end of the day."

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