Coping questions and Russian Culture

choose an intervention and a culture and show how that intervention will work and fit that culture. research about the culture and intervention.
This is a group project and we have divided the work.

Students are to demonstrate a culturally congruent intervention, tailored to a specific culture.
Need to describe the intervention and how it is culturally relevant.
Need to answer these questions: those are the questions that I have to answer.

1. Describe the culture you are focusing on for this intervention.

2. What are the characteristics that you feel are relevant for this particular intervention or the situation that the intervention is meant to address (type of problem the intervention is designed for)

3. How does this intervention fit with the culture you are working with (selected)?

4. How would your approach be different if the family was from a Western context? For example: Western culture are individualistic, I will not include the 3 generations on therapy.

Culture chosen: Russian
Intervention Chosen Coping Questions from Solution Focused Therapy.
Coping questions focus on eliciting information about how in the presence of such difficult circumstances, client has been able to keep going to stay together as a family.

We are looking at Coping Questions more as highlighting on strengths so instead of the family seeing their roles as a problem we can focus on how they manage to hold all those roles and see them in a more positive light. Like how do you manage to stay dedicated to your parents and your marriage at the same time?
How they keep their marriage from falling apart?, etc.

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Some info about Russians:

• Russians are very enmeshed and do have traditions.
• Russian culture is collective culture, they would not be able to break their family cycle or pattern of their ancestors.
• They live in a big family and is considered a societal norm and has ben accepted for generations
• Adults stay in their parent house; they meet their partner married but live with parents.
• Is hard for them to form a small family writhing a large one.
• Young couple must not only agree with each other on the manner in which they live together but they must also agree with their parent’s rules.
• Young couple both sides call parents mom and dad and refer to siblings as brothers and sisters.
• When they young couple is out of the parental home (trip together) they feel they are really married. When they are at home with their parents, their marriage status appears to be voided, because they now have to be children again.
• The new subsystem often desires separation, whereas the old system wants to preserve the traditional family values by staying together in one household.
• Birth of a child by the couple is a time of crises for the whole family.
• Necessary to agree on who does what and divided the different responsibilities between the 2 generations.
• Parents go to work and grandparents take care of the children.
• More children create jealously between siblings.
• Parents start aging, aged parents become dependent on the middle generation.
• 3 generations living together in the same household.