Culture influences occupation as well as perceptions of health, illness, and disability. Therapists are aware of the need to address culture in interventions. However, definitions of culture can be unclear, providing little guidance to therapists about how to recognize its effects in therapeutic encounters. A pragmatic definition of culture as emergent in everyday interactions of individuals encourages reconsideration of the main elements of culture, that it is learned, shared, patterned, evaluative, and persistent but changeable. Understanding of culture as emergent in interaction, including therapeutic intervention, suggests three important characteristics that therapists can cultivate to enhance clinical encounters: careful attention, active curiosity, and self-reflection and evaluation.

It Takes Two to Talk may be associated with positive communication change for this group. Further investigation of its clinical effectiveness is warranted.

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International audienceQualitative algebras form a family of languages mainly used to represent knowledge depending on space or time. This paper proposes an approach to adapt cases represented in such an algebra. A spatial example in agronomy and a temporal example in cooking are given. The idea behind this adaptation approach is to apply a substitution and then repair potential inconsistencies, thanks to belief revision on qualitative algebras.Les algèbres qualitatives forment une famille de langages utilisés principalement pour représenter des connaissances de nature temporelle ou spatiale. Cet article propose une approche pour adapter des cas représentés dans une telle algèbre. Un exemple spatial portant sur l'agronomie ainsi qu'un exemple temporel portant sur la cuisine sont donnés. L'idée sous-jacente à cette approche de l'adaptation est d'appliquer une substitution puis de réparer les incohérences qui pourraient être apparues, grâce à la révision des croyances appliquée aux algèbres qualitatives