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When Western Therapy Conflicts with Collectivist Values

My therapist keeps telling me to set boundaries with my family but she does not understand that individual therapy concepts do not work in collectivist cultures.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mental health frameworks designed for individualistic cultures fail to address the needs of people from collective cultural backgrounds.

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