Promoting Cultural Diversity - Strategies for Health Care Professionals

Klappentext Increasingly, health care professionals work in settings composed of ethnically, socially and economically disparate populations. Kavanagh and Kennedy analyze the issues that surround cultural, gender, ideological and experiential diversity, and focus on communication skills and intervention strategies that are effective in situations characterized by diversity. They also present a repertoire of experiential strategies and aids for learning about diversity and offer scenarios, collages and extensive case studies to illustrate and encourage the analysis of real life situations. Zusammenfassung Increasingly! health care professionals work in settings composed of ethnically! socially and economically disparate populations. This title analyzes the issues that surround cultural! ideological and experiential diversity! and focus on communication skills and intervention strategies that are effective in situations characterized by diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Conceptual Background Communication, Intervention, and Diversity Application Case Studies and Collages

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• Authors: Kavahagh, Kavanagh, Kathryn H. Kavanagh, Kathryn H. (Hopkins) Kavanagh, Kathryn H. (Hopkins) Kennedy Kavanagh, Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh, Kathryn Hopkins Kennedy Kavanagh, Patricia H. Kennedy
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.07.1992
• EAN: 9780803946576
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-4657-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Health systems & services, Public health and preventive medicine, Health systems and services, Multi-Cultural Counseling