title: A culturally sensitive approach to therapy with immigrant families: the case of Jewish emigrants from the former Soviet Union.
abstract: This article is based on accumulated clinical experience in Israel with families that emigrated from the former Soviet Union. It describes a culturally sensitive systemic intervention with two such families: a single-parent family, and a family that exhibited physical violence. Relevant cultural characteristics of family patterns and parent-child relationships in Jewish-Soviet families are reviewed. It is demonstrated how a cross-cultural perspective may affect the interpretation of presented problems and result in a less pathological perspective. It is further illustrated how universal intervention techniques combined with culturally sensitive approaches may produce positive effects in therapy.
authors.affiliation: Spitzer Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. slonim@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Slonim-Nevo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sharaga
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mirsky
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D014586:USSR / Q000208:ethnology