Cultural integration in the contemporary world: using the Cultural Identikit

Integration has become an extremely important and controversial global issue. Italy is facing a huge increase in the immigrant population which presents a daunting integration challenge in many sectors: economic, social, health and educational (ISTAT 2013). The authors propose the Cultural Identikit...

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Main Authors: Rosalba Terranova Cecchini, TOFFLE, Mary Ellen
Other Authors: Rosalba Terranova, Cecchini, Toffle, Mary Ellen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Cultural Ego
cultural identikit
transcultural psychotherapy
integration
Terranova
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11570/2806369
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Summary:Integration has become an extremely important and controversial global issue. Italy is facing a huge increase in the immigrant population which presents a daunting integration challenge in many sectors: economic, social, health and educational (ISTAT 2013). The authors propose the Cultural Identikit as a proven instrument to assist in the integration process. It has been used as a transcultural psychotherapy instrument for more than 30 years in Italy by the Fondazione Cecchini Pace, Milan (Terranova-Cecchini, 1991, 2013). This work reports a recent project in an immigration center sponsored by the Municipal Government of Milan where it was used as a therapeutic tool to assist in the integration process.

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