Multicultural Care A Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competence

Name: Multicultural Care A Clinician's Guide to Cultural Competence
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ISBN: 9781433810688

ISBN-10: 1433810689

ISBN-13: 9781433810688

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lillian Comas-Diaz

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In today's increasingly diverse society, clinicians must provide appropriate and effective services when working with multicultural clients. Examining the role of context on our clients, ourselves, and our world is critical. In this book, Lillian Comas-D az offers a comprehensive, practical approach for enhancing your understanding of clients' contexts, developing a multicultural therapeutic relationship, and adapting your healing approach to your clients' needs. Each chapter demonstrates the application of cultural competence to a different aspect of clinical practice: self-awareness, assessment, engagement, treatment, psychopharmacology and testing, folk healing, and general multicultural…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Publication date: 12/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Multicultural Care in Clinical Practice



Cultural Self-Assessment: Knowing Others, Knowing Yourself



Engagement: Telling Stories



Multicultural Assessment: Understanding Lives in Context



Cultural Analysis: Looking Through a Multicultural Lens



Multicultural Therapeutic Relationship: Seeing Yourself in the Other



Psychopharmacology and Psychological Testing: Engaging in Cultural Critical Thinking



Multicultural Treatment: Part 1. Fostering Empowerment



Multicultural Treatment: Part 2. Incorporating Culture-Specific Healing



Multicultural Consciousness: Extending Cultural Competence Beyond the Clinical Encounter


Memoirs of Culturally Diverse Individuals


Resources


Glossary


References


Index


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