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Culturally Sensitive Social work Practice With Arab Clients in Mental Health Settings
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Several culturally specific practical considerations should inform social work interventions with ethnic Arab peoples in Arab countries or in Western nations. These include taking into account gender relations, individuals' places in their families and communities, patterns of mental health services use, and, for practice in Western nations, the client's level of acculturation. Such aspects provide the basis for specific guidelines in working with ethnic Arab mental health clients. These include an emphasis on short-term, directive treatment; communication patterns that are passive and informal; patients' understanding of external loci of control and their use of ethnospecific idioms of distress; and, where appropriate, the integration of modern and traditional healing systems.
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“clinical observations of therapists who have reported that Arabs prefer short-term and directive psychological treatments that have a focus on practical skills and the here-and-now, and that do not require them to divulge their story (Abudabbeh and Hays, 2006, Al-Krenawi and Graham, 2000, Chaleby, 1992).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Al-Krenawi, A., & Graham, J. R.
- ORCID
- Graham, J. R.
- Venue
- Health & Social Work
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2000-02-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 9-22
- ISSN
- 0360-7283 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6854
- OpenAlex
- W2141756034
- Cited by
- 485
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 38 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 23 · 2019: 23 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 20 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 21
- FWCI
- 20.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Health & Social Work (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Social Work Education and Practice
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Keywords
- mental health service utilization, gender relations, family and community role, acculturation, communication patterns, locus of control, idioms of distress, traditional healing
- MeSH terms
- Acculturation, Attitude to Health, Mental Disorders, Communication, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Gender Identity, Humans, Internal-External Control, Professional-Patient Relations, Religion and Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatric, Arabs
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