Abstract:IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE, at least in the Netherlands, there is a general hesitation to start psychotherapy with foreign patients, especially when asylum seekers, refugees and other migrants from nonwestern countries are concerned. Language barriers are usually mentioned to rationalise this reluctance. The evidence that interpreters can help carrying out psychotherapeutic treatment is not widely known and even less acted upon. This is a problem, as in this way a large group of patients who do not speak Dutch on a… Show more
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