The chapter is dedicated to the instruments of positive psychotherapy that could be applied to help both voluntary and involuntary immigrants adapt in the new country. The main idea of these techniques is about changing the perspective by focusing more on the details (“zoom in”) or on the bigger picture (“zoom-out”). The balance model is suggested as an instrument of zooming out, switching attention from specific losses in daily life to assessing the fullness of every sphere of life. The concept of actual capacities is used to clarify the cultural differences and also to understand the emotional needs between the missed places, habits, and things (“zoom-in”). The concept of acculturative strategies is compared with the idea of three stages of interaction, psychodynamic explanations are given to help psychotherapists understand what can motivate people to choose one of the strategies. Model of relations is used to demonstrate which areas are influenced by the acute stress and which of them could be unstable for, probably, psychodynamic reasons. Finally, few examples of using metaphors to reframe the stressful situation are presented.

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Facilitating Immigrant Adaptation Through Positive Psychotherapy

  • Polina R. Efremova

摘要

The chapter is dedicated to the instruments of positive psychotherapy that could be applied to help both voluntary and involuntary immigrants adapt in the new country. The main idea of these techniques is about changing the perspective by focusing more on the details (“zoom in”) or on the bigger picture (“zoom-out”). The balance model is suggested as an instrument of zooming out, switching attention from specific losses in daily life to assessing the fullness of every sphere of life. The concept of actual capacities is used to clarify the cultural differences and also to understand the emotional needs between the missed places, habits, and things (“zoom-in”). The concept of acculturative strategies is compared with the idea of three stages of interaction, psychodynamic explanations are given to help psychotherapists understand what can motivate people to choose one of the strategies. Model of relations is used to demonstrate which areas are influenced by the acute stress and which of them could be unstable for, probably, psychodynamic reasons. Finally, few examples of using metaphors to reframe the stressful situation are presented.