Cross‐Cultural Family Therapy — A Malaysian Experience

Kinzie, David; Sushama, P. C.; Lee, Mary

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1972.00059.x

Cited by 7 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 2 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Goals of therapy are determined by therapists' cultural values (Kinzie, et al ., 1972). British therapists are more likely to define human growth as a process of differentiation, and look for ways to enable individuals to become more independent and autonomous.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The boundary can be within the family system in the case of multicultural marriage (McGoldrick & Preto, 1984), or in immigrant families where the degree of acculturation varies among the family members (Sluzki, 1979). For therapists from non‐Western cultures, the boundary is created between Western theory and practice of family therapy and its applicability to non‐Western cultures (Bott & Hodes, 1989; Kinzie, Sushaman, & Lee, 1972).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Connectedness Versus Separateness: Applicability of Family Therapy to Japanese Families

Tamura

Lau

1992

Family Process

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article, a product of the two authors' multicultural experiences, contrasts British and Japanese families in order to examine the applicability of the Western model of family therapy to Japanese families and therapists. Areas where the Western model is incompatible are identified, and modifications to fit the Japanese indigenous model are suggested. The most significant difference in value systems between the two cultures is the Japanese preference for connectedness. The Japanese person is seen as a part of the embedded interconnectedness of relationships, whereas British norms prioritize separateness and clear boundaries in relationships, individuality, and autonomy. This value orientation is manifested in the Japanese language, hierarchical nature of the family structure, the family life cycle, and the implicit communication style. Systemic thinking, which deals with the pattern of relationships, is valid for all families regardless of cultural differences. But therapists should note that the preferred direction of change for Japanese families in therapy, is toward a process of integration--how a person can be effectively integrated into the given system--rather than a process of differentiation. An authoritative therapist style, the use of individual sessions, silence, and other nonverbal techniques are relevant to bringing about the desired change toward better integration of the individual with his or her networks.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Connectedness Versus Separateness: Applicability of Family Therapy to Japanese Families

Tamura

Lau

1992

Family Process

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The journal published articles on topics such as "Research on Socialization in Norway" (Grönseth, 1964); "Growing Up in India" (Narain, 1964); "Deviance and Mental Illness in the Greek Family" (Safilios-Rothschild, 1968); "The Social Recovery of Mentally Ill Housewives" (Brodsky, 1968); "Therapy in Tribal Settings and Urban Network Intervention" (Attneave, 1969); "A Four-Day Diagnostic-Therapeutic Home Visit in Turkey" (Gardner, 1970); "Living Space in an Urban Ghetto" (Scheflen, 1971) "Cross-Cultural Family Therapy-A Malaysian Experience" (Kinzie, Suchama, & Lee, 1972), "Family Conflict in the Psychopathology of the Kibbutz Child" (Kaffman, 1972). 12 However, the bulk of articles published in Family Process in the 1960s and early 1970s did not address culture, nor did they provide cultural markers (whether in the form of national, ethnic, racial, or class indicators) for the patients or research subjects described.…”

Section: Cross-cultural Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture at work: Family therapy and the culture concept in post‐World War II America

Weinstein

2004

J History Behavioral Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

During the 1950s and 1960s, the concept of culture had currency beyond the disciplinary boundaries of anthropology and sociology. This article takes up a clinical example of the invocation of the culture concept by examining how early family therapists such as Nathan Ackerman, Murray Bowen, and Don Jackson used culture as a category of analysis during the formative years of their new field. The culture concept played an integral role in the processes by which family therapists simultaneously defined the object of their research and treatment, the family, and built their new field. Their varied uses of culture also contained tensions and contradictions, most notably between universal and relativist views of family and psychopathology and between views of family therapy as a conservative force for maintaining the nuclear family or a progressive force for overcoming social inequality.

show abstract

Immigrant Adolescents and Culture Conflict

Snyder¹

1977

Children Australia

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the research report Welfare of Migrants (1975), it was noted that all the ethnic groups surveyed were deeply concerned about the problem of “culture conflict”, which was seen as a generation gap in which cultural differences were significant in producing conflict. For the social worker the anxiety, tension and intra-psychic confusion, which this paper attempts to describe, indicates that it offers an important and challenging area for social work concern and involvement.

show abstract

Cross‐Cultural Family Therapy — A Malaysian Experience

Cited by 7 publications

References 2 publications

Connectedness Versus Separateness: Applicability of Family Therapy to Japanese Families

Connectedness Versus Separateness: Applicability of Family Therapy to Japanese Families

Culture at work: Family therapy and the culture concept in post‐World War II America

Immigrant Adolescents and Culture Conflict

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About