Culture-sensitive counseling service for migrant families

Following the project “Baby im Blick” (Baby in Focus), the Herbstmühle Psychological Counseling Center in Wipperfürth offers a counseling service for migration families, especially for Turkish-speaking families. As migration processes are very often associated with severe stress, which can lead to developmental disorders and even mental illness in children and young people, it is important to provide support at an early stage. A crucial element here is language. Family counseling cannot succeed without joint communication possibilities based on knowledge of cultural peculiarities. If counseling cannot be provided in the native language, specially trained interpreters are involved.