Learnings about transcultural psychotherapy, acquired from psychological help for immigrants association Oasis

Abstract

The experiences lived in an concrete association of psychological help to the immigrant have allowed - though well in limited and partial form - to achieve a series of learnings on the psychology and psychotherapy related to the immigration such as: practical difficulties of the setting, importance of the grupal intervention (both preventive and curative), the relevancy of the treatment of the distress and the promotion of the internal resources. On the other hand, this experience makes us to question the doubtful validity of an indiscriminate use of instruments of diagnosis, with independence of the culture in which the subject has grown up. Also it is required from us a special reconsideration of the features that construct the therapeutic relation, of the facts on the proper goals and dynamics of the process and of the instruments to using along the same one. Simultaneously, it confirms to us the need of the transcultural approach for the treatment with the group of immigrants and for the proper professional and human growth of the psychotherapist.