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In light of the movement toward cultural competence in psychotherapy, psychological matters of race and culture have assumed greater attention among psychodynamic scholars. Despite these contributions, the literature is dominated by an adult orientation. This paper seeks to bring human diversity into the realm of child psychodynamic treatment by focusing on racial and cultural themes as a topic of therapeutic interest.
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Perry, J. When race and culture matter in psychodynamic child therapy: Considerations of theory, process and technique. Psychoanal Cult Soc 16, 179–195 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2010.6
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