In the current context of globalisation, English as an international language, lingua franca, and a global language (e.g., Tavakoli, Shirinbakhsh, & Rezazadeh, 2012) is used as a means of communication in multicultural contexts.
Specific challenges were highlighted which related to interviewees' possibilities to work actively with each client, often in multicultural contexts.
Somatisation is particularly challenging in multicultural contexts where patients and physicians often differ in terms of their illness-related beliefs and practices and health care expectations.
In multicultural contexts, patients and physicians often differ in their understanding of illness, their values and preferences regarding treatment, expectations of the clinical encounter, and communication styles [ 11- 16].
In addition, a focus on trajectory avoids the potential misclassification that can result from interpretation of neuropsychological testing in the absence of suitable norms [ 23], as is often the case in multicultural contexts.
Somatisation can be particularly challenging in multicultural contexts where social, cultural and linguistic differences between patients and physicians can create additional barriers to communication and to development of a therapeutic alliance with the patient [ 9, 10].
Companies increasingly see advantages in hiring across borders: "Global industries want to look outside the country for people who can manage in a multicultural context," says Philip Vivian, a headhunter specialising in telecoms and high-technology industry with Egon Zehnder in London.
The idea is to give artists the opportunity to express their own talent by showing Italian people that being in a multicultural context can be mutually enriching "even without living in New York".
Based on them, and principally the one constructed by Cortés et al. [ 13], an initial set of items that appeared clinically relevant in our multicultural context was selected and translated into French (the official language in Geneva).
