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Virtue Ethics and the Multicultural Clinic

This chapter expands on recent research applying a character-focused, virtue ethics framework to psychotherapeutic practice by introducing some distinctive demands made on the character of those who undertake psychotherapy with immigrant populations. These demands are illustrated using case examples taken from the clinic of one of the authors (JK), where Southeast Asian and East African patients are seen in an inner-city clinic in Minneapolis. The authors first discuss the definition of “psychotherapy” before moving on to introduce five brief case vignettes. The authors then examine virtue ethics, and the role of virtues in psychiatric practice. They use the case studies to illustrate when and how character virtues, both those that are familiar and some that are not, play a part in effective psychotherapeutic treatment in this setting, and explore the virtues likely to avert or diminish the effects of practitioner burnout that is a particular hazard of working in these settings.