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    The association between Western components of psychotherapy and psychotherapy help-seeking attitudes among Asian Indians: A practice innovation
    (American Psychological Association, 2024) Choubisa, Rajneesh
    Despite the cross-cultural use of psychotherapy, there is limited understanding of when and why people in India are receptive to it. This study aims to capture some of the Western cultural components underlying psychotherapy to better predict positive attitudes toward seeking psychotherapy in India. Three hundred twelve individuals from India completed six measures of correlative signifiers for the underlying Western components of psychotherapy as generated from the Frank and Frank common factors model: Asian values, European American values, ethnic identity, collective self-esteem, Westernization, and cultural mistrust. Linear regression was used to test six theoretical hypotheses about psychotherapy help-seeking attitudes. Results indicated that Asian values (B = −.12, p = .005), collective self-esteem (B = −.22, p = .000), and cultural mistrust (B = −.02, p = .006) are negatively correlated with help-seeking attitudes, and that European American values (B = .12, p = .001) and Westernization (B = .13, p = .015) are positively correlated with help-seeking attitudes. Ethnic identity was not significantly associated with attitude toward psychotherapy help seeking (B = −.15, p = .118). The best multiple regression equation for predicting positive attitudes included lower (non-Western) collective self-esteem, higher Westernization, and lower cultural mistrust. Findings from this study suggest that the cultural congruence between a client’s culture and the elements of Western culture underlying psychotherapy shape help-seeking attitudes and ultimate acceptance of psychotherapy as a legitimate intervention. Collective self-esteem, Westernization, and cultural mistrust may be particularly informative to clinicians when determining cultural appropriacy of psychotherapy.
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    Predicting professional psychological help-seeking intentions for Indians through envisioning counseling and psychotherapy as Western cultural healing practices
    (Hogrefe, 2024-11) Choubisa, Rajneesh
    There remains considerable ambiguity in predicting which Indians seek professional psychological services during times of distress and which do not. This study expands past research on predicting professional psychological help-seeking attitudes of Indians to help-seeking intentions. Drawing on variables previously examined as predictors of help-seeking attitudes from a frame of psychotherapy as a manifestation of Western culture, this study aimed to investigate the predictive ability of six cultural variables (Asian values, European American values, importance of one’s ethnic group to their identity, commitment to one’s ethnic group, westernization, and cultural mistrust). Participants were 377 university students from India. The results can be taken to suggest that a highly westernized lifestyle and greater adherence to European American values are best predictive of professional psychological help-seeking intentions among Indians. Assessing these two variables will enable practitioners to direct prospective clients to culturally congruent treatment methods that they are most likely to attend and perhaps benefit more from. Overall, the findings of this study are in line with conceptualizing professional psychological treatment as a manifestation of Western culture.
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    Assessing psychotherapy as a western healing practice through prediction of help-seeking attitudes
    (Taylor & Francis, 2023-02) Choubisa, Rajneesh
    This exploratory study assessed the ability of six theory-derived variables representing possible signifiers for the Western cultural components of psychotherapy for predicting attitudes towards professional psychological help-seeking. Using data from 377 participants from India, regression analyses were conducted to test six hypotheses derived from Frank’s and Frank common factors model of psychotherapy. Results indicated a positive relationship between European American values and help-seeking attitudes, a negative relationship between Asian values and help-seeking attitudes, a positive relationship between westernization and help-seeking attitudes, and a negative relationship between cultural mistrust and help-seeking attitudes. Assessing a client’s cultural values, endorsement of a Western lifestyle, and level of cultural mistrust may be particularly predictive in determining suitability for and openness to psychotherapy with the single best predictor being European-American values. Those who do not adhere to Western values, who endorse more Asian values, who live a visibly non-Western lifestyle, and who have high mistrust of Western culture may be better suited for more culturally congruent healing methods.