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We tested group interventions for women with a Turkish migration background living in Austria and suffering from recurrent depression. Sixty-six participants were randomized to: (1) self-help groups (SHG), (2) cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) groups, or (3) a wait-list (WL) control
condition. Neither SHG nor CBT were superior to WL. On an individual basis, approximately one third of the participants showed significant improvements with respect to symptoms of depression. Younger women, women who had lived in Austria for longer, and those who had encountered a higher number
of traumatic experiences, showed increased improvement of depressive symptoms. The results suggest that individual treatment by ethnic, female psychotherapists should be used instead of group interventions.

The authors make two basic points in their commentary, both stemming from the field of cross-cultural psychology. First, in their view, intelligence is a concept that is highly variable across cultures; its meaning, development, display, and assessment are all embedded in cultural contexts. Thus, they consider that a single concept such as cultural intelligence (CQ) is unlikely to be culturally appropriate in all sociocultural settings. Second, when groups and individuals of different cultural backgrounds come into contact, the process of acculturation is set in motion. In this situation, two differing meanings of intelligence are likely to engage each other, bringing some challenges to the intercultural interaction, often resulting in stress, and sometimes in conflict. Eventually, some forms of adaptation are achieved, with the emergence of some effective ways of acting in the intercultural situation. The authors believe that these two points need attention during the further development of the concept of CQ.

Based on the inter-cultural relations model of John Berry, four different groups among Russian-speakers in Estonia were differentiated in the analysis of 'Integration monitoring 2005'. The analysis reveals that both similarities and differences exist between the characteristics of these four groups and the groups in the typology of Berry (integration, assimilation, marginalisation, separation). The differences that emerged are related to the assimilation and integration strategies, which proved to be rather restrained for Russian-speakers in the current social and political context in Estonia. The analysis gives us ground to claim that the strong ethnic connotation of the current nation-state model in Estonia hinders finding a positive place in this country even for those Russian-speakers, who, in fact, would like to integrate.

"Based on the inter-cultural relations model of John Berry, four different groups among Russian-speakers
in Estonia were differentiated in the analysis of 'Integration monitoring 2005'. The analysis reveals that
both similarities and differences exist between the characteristics of these four groups and the groups
in the typology of Berry (integration, assimilation, marginalisation, separation). The differences that
emerged are related to the assimilation and integration strategies, which proved to be rather restrained
for Russian-speakers in the current social and political context in Estonia. The analysis gives us ground
to claim that the strong ethnic connotation of the current nation-state model in Estonia hinders finding
a positive place in this country even for those Russian-speakers, who, in fact, would like to integrate." (author's abstract)

Section I. Intercultural relations and social integration. 1. Acculturation and social cohesion : emerging issues for Asian immigrants in New Zealand / Colleen Ward. 2. Migrating talent : subsequent mobility of recent Asian immigrants to and from New Zealand / Elsie Ho. 3. Immigration and integration : the Canadian experience / John W. Berry -- Section II. Cultural competency in the workplace and the social environment. 4. Preparing managers for intercultural leadership : application of an economy-based theoretical framework / Dharm P. S. Bhawuk, Vijayan P. Munusamy and Keith H. Sakuda. 5. Work in cultural translation : workplace encounters in Taiwanese firms with Western migrant employees / Rueyling Tzeng. 6. Sociocultural competence for career success and social integration : the case of Asians in Australia / Anita S. Mak. 7. "Show me the money!" construct and predictive validation of the Intercultural Business Corruptibility Scale (IBCS) / Chan-Hoong Leong and Weirong Lin -- Section III. Sociocultural effectiveness and emotional adaptation. 8. A study in cross-cultural adjustment : the American community in India / Kiveli Kazila Filmeridis. 9. Expectations and real life : cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese students in China and the Netherlands / Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven, Jianhua Long and Wenhua Yan -- Section IV. Understanding Asian migration in Asia. 10. The influence of adult attachment styles on urban residents' attitudes toward acculturation strategies of rural-to-urban migrants in China / Huadong Yang, Lili Tian and Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven.