Bridging realms: Western client perspectives on psychotherapy inspired by Indigenous healing

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2024.103059" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2024.103059</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.explore.2024.103059" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.explore.2024.103059</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bridging realms: Western client perspectives on psychotherapy inspired by Indigenous healing

Original language description

Context The decolonial turn in psychology criticizes conventional Western psychotherapeutic frameworks and seeks to decolonize therapeutic practices by considering diverse cultural perspectives. Indigenous healing has been increasingly used in the psychotherapy of ethnic communities, but also in the psychotherapy of Western clients. The research questions of the present study were focused on how Western clients experience the therapies inspired by Indigenous healing. Objective The study aimed to explore the motivations, experiences, and mental health outcomes of participants of therapies inspired by Indigenous healing with a focus on issues related to intercultural transfer of therapeutic practice. Design Semi-structured qualitative interviews were used to gather narratives from 28 participants. Thematic analysis was used for data analysis. Results Participants reported the following long-lasting outcomes of Indigenous therapies: increased well-being, calm, satisfaction with life, better emotion regulation, coping with stress, behavioral control, problem solving, decision making as well as a more sensitive and deeper experience of reality. Conventional Western psychotherapy was perceived as conversation-based, while Indigenous therapy was perceived as experience-based and more complex. The integration of experiences from Indigenous therapies was more difficult in the Western sociocultural environment compared to participation in the place of their origin, within the community of Indigenous people. Conclusion Indigenous healing has beneficial outcomes for Western clients, but the integration of these experiences is quite difficult and requires systematic psychotherapeutic support in the Western cultural environment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

EXPLORE

ISSN

1550-8307

e-ISSN

1878-7541

Volume of the periodical

20

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

103059

UT code for WoS article

001317742800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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