Dimensions that relate to cross-cultural counselling: perceptions of mental health professionals in Auckland, New Zealand

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Title: Dimensions that relate to cross-cultural counselling: perceptions of mental health professionals in Auckland, New Zealand
Author(s): Selvarajah, Christopher T.
Abstract: Sets out to report on an exploratory study in which perspectives on cross-cultural counselling in mental health care in Auckland, New Zealand, are to be examined. The study utilised a single questionnaire which sought mental health professionals' perceptions on issues and concepts of cross-cultural counselling. The questionnaire was administered in the nine public psychiatric units in Auckland. Apart from the health units providing bicultural (European and Maori) counselling services, there was little cross-cultural counselling available to an increasingly multicultural community. With regard to the need for cross-cultural counselling, rather than address the issue of population change this study examines the effect that lack of diversity would have on the gains that would otherwise be made in the health-care system of Auckland, New Zealand.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
Source: Cross Cultural Management: an International Journal, Vol. 13, no. 1 (2006), pp. 54-68
Publication year: 2006
Keyword(s): Cross-cultural management; Mental health services; Multicultural management; Counselling; New Zealand
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISSN: 1352-7606
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527600610643484
Peer reviewed