Counselling as a profession has an unspoken and difficult relationship with issues of class and income, and discourse around a subject that affects one in five people in the UK remains uniquely undeveloped.
Clare participated in a discussion with the live online audience around the issues raised in her lecture.
Colin Lago Temenos Conference 2011
Divine Charura has contributed the chapter “The effects of an African heritage” to “The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy” edited by Colin Lago. The chapter “explores the general, historic, cultural, religious and other influences of an African heritage and considers how these influences might impact a therapeutic relationship conducted in another country where the cultural style is different.” In the chapter Divine also proposes 10 principles to consider when working with individuals of African heritage. This work is a rich resource for therapists, helping to expand our own world view and openness to the other.
Psychotherapy tends to consider itself discrete from the non-psychotherapy world. When we’re being psychotherapists and discussing psychotherapy we don’t also think about the gross domestic product of the country in which we’re working, labour relations or what’s on television.
We enjoyed interviewing Colin Lago about his new book “The Handbook of Transcultural Counselling and Psychotherapy”. This new book is a seminal work which brings together recent critical thinking and research and the exploration of the impact of different cultural heritages upon potential clients and therapists.