Sitting with Aboriginal Clients: Appropriate Modalities

In this course, five groups of therapy modalities – post-modern, expressive/somatic/trauma-sensitive, person-centred and positive psychology, psychodynamic, and CBT-based – are analysed for how well their chief assumptions and techniques will work when used with Aboriginal clients. The chief concepts of each therapy are explained, followed by a discussion of how the modality may be useful and any aspects that practitioners using that modality should beware of with Aboriginal clients.