ABSTRACT
This chapter is aimed at therapists working with traumatized clients in need of language support, and will show how to use interpreters to maximize therapeutic effect. We will inevitably refer to the issues of working with refugee experience and torture, since they interact with the interpreting process. We regard effective work with interpreters as a necessary but not sufficient skill for psychological therapists. Good interpreting can only take place within overall transcultural sensitivity (d’Ardenne, Capuzzo, Ruaro, & Priebe, 2005), which recognizes difference in perception, priority, and the meaning of emotion.
