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Key Takeaways:
- Integration of Faith and Psychology: Faith-based psychological services often provide a greater strength or recovery from traumas, as faith can play a crucial role in mental health support.
- Challenges in Cross-Cultural Mental Health: Confidentiality, community engagement, and managing shame are significant challenges faced in cross-cultural counselling.
- Client-Centered Approach: Effective counselling requires an understanding of a client’s cultural and faith background, with a focus on letting clients lead the conversation about their needs.
- Innovative Community Projects: Initiatives like the "Friends of Friends" project illustrate successful cross-cultural mental health strategies tailored to community needs.
- Importance of Confidentiality: Ensuring client confidentiality is essential, especially in tight-knit communities where maintaining privacy can be challenging.
Notable Quotes:
- Judy Saba: "Our community can be so supportive, but it can be so judgmental."
- Monsignor Shora: "Psychological services that do have a faith base statistically show greater strength in recovery from different traumas and issues."
- Judy Saba: "We didn't know it all either, so we reached out for expertise outside to us and were constantly being supervised around this work."
- Eddie Reaiche: "It's that whole person centred thing, isn't it? The client knows the answers. We just need to help them find it."
- Judy Saba: "I truly believe that people come through us, we don't do anything for them. They do it for themselves. We just facilitate and journey with them."
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