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Alice was unclear of her destination. Persons suffering from mental illness are often in the same state. However, even when the client is from an ethnic group different than that of the therapist, the therapist often presumes the European American clinical strategies are universally effective and therefore assumes the client wishes to travel down the same road and towards the same destination that the therapist has been trained to travel. Rarely does the therapist or researcher assess the appropriateness of the assumed destination or the means to get there beyond translating the existing road signs into the appropriate language.
Alice in Wonderland meets the Cheshire cat as she is traveling down a road and asks “Would you tell me please which way I ought to go from here?” The Cheshire cat responds “That depends on where you want to get to.” She responds “I don’t much care where.” To which he responds - “then it doesn’t matter which way you go” (Carroll 1946 p.49).
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Kagawa-Singer, M., Chung, R.CY. (2002). Toward a New Paradigm: A Cultural Systems Approach. In: Kurasaki, K.S., Okazaki, S., Sue, S. (eds) Asian American Mental Health. International and Cultural Psychology Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0735-2_4
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