Cross Cultural Perspectives in Treating the Gay Male Trauma Survivor

Cassese, James; Mujica, Ernesto

doi:10.1300/j041v12n01_09

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“…Schrauf (2000) shows how childhood memories are more detailed when recalled in L1, but when childhood or adolescent memories of trauma are encoded in L1, it might be threatening to switch to this language in therapy. Cassese and Mujica (2000) describe a case study in which a homosexual Latino male, Lucio, experienced sexual trauma in childhood and adolescence. He refused to use Portuguese (L1) in therapy, preferring to use English (LX).…”

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A journey through languages: A systematic literature review on the multilingual experience in counselling and psychotherapy with children and adolescents

Serrani

2022

Couns and Psychother Res

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The purpose of this research was to address the gap in the existing literature on the multilingual aspect of language in psychotherapy with children and adolescents. This research aimed at interpreting possible meanings for clients of being multilingual in the therapeutic process as well as reflect on the influence of clients’ multilingualism in the therapeutic relationship. The researcher used a systematic literature review (PRISMA guidelines, 2009) to select articles based on empirical qualitative/mixed studies with participants up to 25 years old or adults referring to childhood/adolescence. The researcher used thematic synthesis (Thomas & Harden, 2008) to extract, analyse and interpret data. The rigour of this study was enhanced by the use of auto‐ethnography as a source of evidence (McLeod, 2015). The auto‐etnography documents self‐reflections on personal experience of being multilingual contributing to deeper contextualised knowledge. The findings confirm previous research on the existence of a link between multilingualism and “identity” (Costa, 2020, p. 5). This research suggests that the meaning a client gives to bilingualism can be co‐constructed within an attuned therapeutic relationship. In this co‐construction journey, there is a significant opportunity for children and young people in finding their way through languages, hence reaching emancipation and affirmation in the world. The main limitation of this research relates to the fact that there are not many studies with children/young people. This led the researcher to also include studies based on a mixed sample and with adults referring to childhood/adolescence, which might have influenced the interpretation of findings.

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confidence: 99%