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Based on their extensive experience working with individuals, families, groups and organizations in Greece, the authors describe therapeutic techniques for helping individuals understand and work through the acculturation process. Tasks and procedures employed at various social levels--dyads, triads, small groups of four to six members, and large groups of 18-25--are catalysts for the exploration and clarification of the ways in which old norms and roles are being modified, weakened, or distorted by cultural change, and for the redefinition of values and expectations.
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Polemi-Todoulou, M., Vassiliou, V. & Vassiliou, G. The Grouping Process Across Cultural Change. Group 22, 105–119 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022179613725
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