
MARK VAN OMMEREN, BHOGENDRA SHARMA, DINESH PRASAIN, and BHAVA N. POUDYAL
Transcultural Psychiatry
Cultural Challenges to Psychosocial Counselling Nepal
June 2005
WIETSE A. TOL & MARK J.D. JORDANS
Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT)/Transcultural
Psychosocial Organization (TPO), Amsterdam
SUSHAMA REGMI & BHOGENDRA SHARMA
Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT)
Abstract
This article describes the way in which the practice of psychosocial counselling was adapted culturally to the context of Nepal within the Centre for Victims of Torture, Nepal (CVICT). After a brief description of the Nepali setting and CVICT’s counselling and training approach and the relationship of its psychosocial counselling intervention with existing methods of dealing with psychosocial problems, the cultural challenges of implementing psychosocial counselling and our response to them are sketched along with concepts deemed important in psychosocial counselling. A discussion follows in which the authors’ stance on the export of psychosocial counselling to non-western cultures is outlined.
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