Artıran, Murat2024-07-122024-07-122019Artıran, M. (2019). A cross-cultural redefinition of RE & CBT from the West to the Middle East. Routledge.367227932https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/3017Many schools of therapy and psychotherapy have been introduced by Western culture to the world and offer a plethora of basic, similar methodologies. Others offer specific, relatable hypotheses and particular, precise methods. The good news is that all are useful to a variety of differing cultures. In the wake of Western psychotherapies, if the cultural aspects are not ignored, we may obtain optimal benefits for non-Western cultures (e.g. Middle Eastern) in therapeutic treatments. Each psychotherapeutic approach has its own structure, hypotheses and assumptions about human psychological well-being. Some of them are scientifically proven and applied all over the world, providing benefit to those in need. Although theoretical assumptions are applicable to clinical and non-clinical populations, each approach may not be culturally adaptable, nor is it necessarily capable of being adaptable to a different culture, due to its complex nature. In Western societies, diverse schools of psychotherapy have been condemned for their inability to welcome an ethnodiversity to their methodologies [1].enCC0 1.0 Universalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBook Part