Cross-Cultural Counselling With International Students

Abstract

This article explores the issues for counsellors working with international students, particularly Asian international students. As globalisation has expanded people have tended to study overseas in great numbers, hence the increasing importance for professionals to examine counselling in this cultural speciality. In order to understand effective counselling, this article discusses the major problems faced by international students and suggests specific counselling strategies in the context of general guidelines for cross-cultural counselling.

Psychosocial correlates of college students’ help-seeking intention: A meta-analysis.

“…This could be addressed by ensuring the provision of culturally appropriate and sensitive mental health care (Barletta & Kobayashi, 2007). This could be addressed by ensuring the provision of culturally appropriate and sensitive mental health care (Barletta & Kobayashi, 2007).…”

Religion/spirituality and quality of life of international tertiary students in New Zealand: an exploratory study

“…However, given the wealth of evidence of the nature of acculturative stressors (Barletta & Kobayashi, 2007;Berry, 1997;Ho et al, 2003), the assumption appears to be warranted that international students in the present sample equally experienced more stress than domestic students studying at the same university in New Zealand.…”

“…The extent to which counselling services are utilised by international students already tends to be relatively low (Kilinc & Granello, 2003;Mori, 2000). In addition to providing counselling services that are culturally sensitive (Barletta & Kobayashi, 2007;Yi, Lin, & Kishimoto, 2003), adequately addressing the different needs of international students in terms of religion/spirituality might increase the acceptance and retention of campus counselling services.…”

“…The present study explored whether this finding can be extended to younger adults, and also whether it could function as a coping mechanism in international tertiary students who are often subjected to significant stressors related to acculturation and being away from their families. Based on the findings from previous research (Barletta & Kobayashi, 2007;Khawaja & Dempsey, 2007;Kra¨mer, Pru¨fer-Kra¨mer, Stock, & Tshiananga, 2004), it was expected that domestic students would have a better quality of life than international students. While it was also expected that international students coming mainly from non-Western cultures would score more highly on religion/spirituality than domestic students (King, Weich, Nazroo, & Blizard, 2006), the question to be explored was whether this would have enabled them to cope better and provide a coping mechanism, and thus alleviate the negative effects of acculturation and transition to a new country.…”

Exploring African Francophone Doctoral Student Experiences of Student-Faculty Relationship

“…They also need to adjust to their campus culture and new education system values. Barletta and Kobayashi (2007) argued that cultural adjustment is the top issue experienced by most international students. The literature recounted difficulties related to cultural shock.…”