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Multilingual clientsâ experience of psychotherapy
The present study focuses on the experiences of 182 multilingual clients who had been exposed to various therapeutic approaches in various countries. An on-line questionnaire was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. The analysis of feedback from clients with multilingual therapists showed that clients use or initiate significantly more code-switching (CS) than their therapists, and that it typically occurs when the emotional tone is raised. Gender was unrelated to CS frequency. CS is used strategically when discussing episodes of trauma and shame, creating proximity or distance. CS allows clients to express themselves more fully to the therapist, adding depth and nuance to the therapy. The therapistâs multilingualism promotes empathy and clientsâ own multilingualism constitutes an important aspect of their sense of self. Multilingual clients benefit from a therapeutic environment where multilingualism is appreciated, and where they can use CS
Psychotherapy across languages: beliefs, attitudes and practices of monolingual and multilingual therapists with their multilingual patients
The present study investigates beliefs, attitudes and practices of 101 monolingual and multilingual therapists in their interactions with multilingual patients. We adopted a
mixed-method approach, using an on-line questionnaire with 27 closed questions which were analysed quantitatively and informed questions in interviews with one monolingual
and two multilingual therapists. A principal component analysis yielded a four-factor solution accounting for 41% of the variance. The first dimension, which explained 17%
of variance, reflects therapistsâ attunement towards their bilingual patients (i.e., attunement versus collusion). Further analysis showed that the 18 monolingual therapists
differed significantly from their 83 bi- or multilingual peers on this dimension. The follow up interviews confirmed this result. Recommendations based on these findings are
made for psychotherapy training and supervision to attend to a range of issues including: the psychological and therapeutic functions of multi/bilingualism; practice in making formulations in different languages; the creative therapeutic potential of the language gap
A cross-disciplinary and multi-method approach of multilingualism in psychotherapy
In this chapter Jean-Marc and Beverley will share their experiences of working with mixed methods in an under-researched area. As we shall see, her interest in larger sampling groups introduced her to some of the advantages of quantitative research. Together with Jean-Marc, who expands on the methods in detail in this chapter, Beverley was able to research multilingual therapy from several angles
The phase transition in the anisotropic Heisenberg model with long range dipolar interactions
In this work we have used extensive Monte Carlo calculations to study the
planar to paramagnetic phase transition in the two-dimensional anisotropic
Heisenberg model with dipolar interactions (AHd) considering the true
long-range character of the dipolar interactions by means of the Ewald
summation. Our results are consistent with an order-disorder phase transition
with unusual critical exponents in agreement with our previous results for the
Planar Rotator model with dipolar interactions. Nevertheless, our results
disagrees with the Renormalization Group results of Maier and Schwabl [PRB, 70,
134430 (2004)] and the results of Rapini et. al. [PRB, 75, 014425 (2007)],
where the AHd was studied using a cut-off in the evaluation of the dipolar
interactions. We argue that besides the long-range character of dipolar
interactions their anisotropic character may have a deeper effect in the system
than previously believed. Besides, our results shows that the use of a cut-off
radius in the evaluation of dipolar interactions must be avoided when analyzing
the critical behavior of magnetic systems, since it may lead to erroneous
results.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic
Materials. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1109.184
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