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With changes in the economy, individuals with a technical certificate, trade designation, or university degree are in demand and make up a large portion of the immigrant flow. Immigrant professionals migrate to countries such as Canada, the United States, and Australia and compete with professional workers of the host country for Jobs, career opportunities, or advancement. The psychological impact of general and career issues faced by professional immigrants is the major focus of this article. A self‐validation model for understanding stress factors is provided along with suggested helping strategies, enabling employment counselors to help individuals successfully adapt to the host country.

Despite multicultural advances in the field, the counselling profession is arguably failing to meet the needs of men who endorse traditional masculine social ideology. This editorial provides the perspective of two practitioners who have worked extensively with traditionally socialized men, including Canadian military men who are thought to strongly exemplify prototypical male ideology. The limitations of a strictly "feminine nurturance"-based counsellor training model are presented. Further, suggestions for effectively engaging men in therapy, based upon 14 years of clinical experience with a military population, are presented. ; En dépit des progrès multiculturels enregistrés dans le domaine, la profession du counseling ne parvient probablement pas à répondre aux besoins des hommes qui endossent l'idéologie sociale de la masculinité traditionnelle. Cet éditorial présente la perspective de deux praticiens qui ont beaucoup travaillé auprès d'hommes traditionnellement socialisés, y compris des militaires canadiens qui sont vus comme prototypes exemplaires de l'idéologie masculine. On y présente également les limites inhérentes à un modèle de formation en counseling strictement fondé sur une approche « nurturance féminine ». Enfin, on y suggère des façons efficaces de susciter l'engagement des hommes à l'égard de la thérapie, en se fondant sur 14 années d'expérience clinique auprès de la population militaire.

The current article discusses cross‐cultural barriers encountered by immigrant clients. Adjustment issues in the following areas are discussed: psychological effects of moving to a new culture, communication, and employment.

A re-entry program for peacekeeping soldiers is described. This program was developed to assist with military personnel's transition back into Canadian society by aiding with their personal and career re-adjustment. Group-based life review and therapeutic enactment counselling interventions are used to identify critical incidents and facilitate the resolution of stress-related reactions soldiers have experienced after a peacekeeping mission. The principle guiding the development of this program is the belief that free from the distraction of these stress reactions and accompanying personal difficulties, soldiers are better able to concentrate on career-building activities. An overview of the program is presented along with a case study to exemplify how the program is applied in practice. ; Cet article décrit un programme de réinsertion sociale destiné aux soldats du maintien de la paix. Ce programme a été mis sur pied pour venir en aide au personnel militaire réintégrant la société canadienne en mettant l'emphase sur le développement personnel et l'orientation professionnelle. La thérapie de groupe et des mises en situation sont employées pour faire un bilan de vie et pour identifier les incidents critiques, ceci afin de faciliter la résorption des réactions au stress éprouvées par les soldats suite aux opérations de maintien de la paix. Le principe directeur de ce programme est le suivant : les soldats sont davantage capables de se concentrer sur les activités de promotion de carrière lorsque les réactions au stress et les difficultés personnelles s'y rattachant n'empêchent plus leur concentration. Une vue d'ensemble de ce programme est présentée ainsi qu'une étude de cas afin de démontrer de quelle façon le programme est appliqué dans la pratique.

Ex-military men have emerged as a vulnerable subgroup for mental illness amid long-standing trends signaling men's reticence to seek professional help. Less explored is how men engage or disengage when they actually do enter helping programs. Contrasting decades of quantitative research pairing masculine ideology with low help seeking (i.e., describing the problem), this article draws on qualitative data to distill factors that help men become engaged and committed to counseling (i.e., identifying solutions). Shared is an evaluation of a treatment program with high success rates and virtually no dropouts—a unique occurrence in men's counseling. Enhanced Critical Incident Technique data suggest that helping men feel competent and free from judgment in the company of down-to-earth peers and genuine practitioners are instrumental in helping men draw benefit from counseling. While appealing to male gender roles may be critical in recruiting men to counseling, men can transition to embrace virtues (i.e., that might be shared by men and women alike) and universal human needs as counseling progresses.

Re-experiencing the distressing trauma(s) is a central component across trauma-focused psychotherapeutic orientations. Various orientations use different interventions to facilitate trauma re-experiencing. Via an in-depth case study, this article describes a military veteran's experience and the benefits of a group-based intervention designed to facilitate re-experiencing through therapeutic enactment. Findings indicated that therapeutic enactment enabled the veteran to vividly re-experience the trauma, reducing trauma-related guilt and maladaptive self-schemas. Theoretical and applied implications are discussed. ; Revivre un traumatisme pénible est un aspect central des orientations psychothérapeutiques axées sur les traumatismes. Les diverses orientations font appel à différentes interventions pour faciliter la reviviscence du traumatisme. S'appuyant sur une étude de cas approfondie, cet article décrit l'expérience d'un ancien combattant et les bienfaits d'une intervention de groupe qui vise à favoriser la reviviscence du traumatisme au moyen d'une reconstitution thérapeutique. Les résultats indiquent que la reconstitution thérapeutique a permis au sujet de revivre de façon très intense le traumatisme et a atténué la culpabilité liée au traumatisme et les schémas de soi mésadaptés. L'article traite également des implications théoriques et appliquées.