SECTION 7 Multilingual therapists’ experiences

  • Multilingual therapists’ professional and personal identities and their implications for therapeutic work

The film for this section can be found at https://vimeo.com/469811584

EXERCISE
In the film, Christine suggests that Frankie reflect some more about this and write up his thoughts in his journal.
Frankie spends a long time thinking about the possible connections between his own experiences and those of his clients. Finally, he writes a journal entry about his thoughts.
How do you think Frankie’s reflections may impact on his subsequent session with Malik?

EXTENSION using Other Tongues
At the beginning of Chapter 2, on p. 31 and p.32, there is an introduction to the challenges for multilingual therapists in working in a language in which they did not receive their training. Some of those challenges are technical. What do you think might be the process and relational challenges?

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