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Why 'Good Intentions' are Not Enough
"If you're doing the mental health equivalent of applying a compress to someone's injured head, why would you need to share his or her religious beliefs, traditions or social structures" (The Wave that Brought PTSD to Sri Lanka, p. 75)?
Question 1: Why do psychologists such as Amatruda stress the importance of counseling as "non-political and non-denominational"?
Question 2: What cultural assumptions are embedded in this stance?
Question 3: By arguing that people, at root, are the same in their emotional experience and expressions, how do global agencies reproduce particular ideas about persons?
Question 4: Why is the notion of "psycho-social aid" fraught with difficulties in actually being carried out?
Question 5: What assumptions and practices surround the treatment foreign experts offer?
Question 6: How might particular therapeutic techniques actually impose new kinds of violence within populations?