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How Psychotherapy is Conducted Around the World

By John M. Grohol, PsyD
Founder & Editor-in-Chief

The August 2007 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology had an interesting series of articles looking at case studies of people who undergo psychotherapy around the world, including in Australia, Iran, Japan, South Africa, Argentina, Spain, Brunei, and Mexico.

The varied nature of these societies and their emphasis or stigmatization of mental health issues lends itself to a fascinating glimpse of how psychotherapy works (or doesn’t) in different settings.

For instance, psychodynamic approaches remain popular in many Spanish-speaking countries, but are slowly being replaced by more cognitive-behavioral therapies. The role of the family is also far more important, even in individual psychotherapy, than you typically see in the U.S., and so psychotherapy in countries like Iran have a heavy emphasis on how the family is a part of the problem and solution.

While the abstracts don’t do justice to the full articles, that is all that is available online (thanks dead-tree publishers!).



    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 7 Oct 2007
    Published on PsychCentral.com. All rights reserved.

APA Reference
Grohol, J. (2007). How Psychotherapy is Conducted Around the World. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2007/10/07/how-psychotherapy-is-conducted-around-the-world/

 

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