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6 pages in length. The writer briefly discusses unique treatment considerations specific to immigrant populations, as well as characteristics, values and interaction styles of Italians. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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astute counselors to be aware of the unique treatment considerations specific to immigrant populations. For example, many first-generation African-American families have a rich cultural history that has been passed
down for generations; from their tribal affiliations hundreds of years ago in Africa, through their years of slavery and even up to today, this history has been passed down through
families. For the most part the only way to relate this history from one generation through the next was through storytelling. In fact, storytelling has become known as
one of the primary ways that history has been taught throughout the years. The narrative or storytelling approaches for immigrants have become more
popular in several areas of psychology and learning. The theories of George Herbert Mead, who helped to develop a symbolic interaction theory of communication issues, have guided counselors to
treat human thinking as instances of story elaboration. When this method is explored, a counselor or therapist finds it offers numerous implications for many domains of psychological theory, research,
and practice. For example, "several instances of cultural diversity take on a different hue when viewed from a narrative perspective" (Howard, 1991, p. 187). There are, in fact,
several authors including Mead who see the ongoing development of identity as an issue of constructing ones life-story. Psychopathology is therefore viewed as instances of life stories gone awry;
and psychotherapy can be considered exercises in story repair (Howard, 1991). According to Mead, cross-cultural psychology represents how the entire society comes before
that of the individuals who comprise it, illustrating how "the social act is not explained by building it up out of stimulus plus response; it must be taken as a
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