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Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual's experience in the development of beliefs, values, and behavior.
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Dedication Acknowledgments About the Authors Preface Foreword by Ashwini Sehgal, MD Prologue Chapter 1 Introduction: Defining Culture and Cultural Competence Chapter 2 Understanding Culture Chapter 3 Distinguishing the Cultural and the Social Chapter 4 Identifying the Personal Within the Cultural Chapter 5 Appreciating the Role of Culture in Health Care Chapter 6 Recognizing Cultural Differences: Lessons from Ethnography Chapter 7 Negotiating Cultural Differences in Working with Clients Chapter 8 Evaluating Clients and Designing Interventions in a Diverse World Chapter 9 Assessing Intercultural Interactions and Interventions Index
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Bette R. Bonder, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor of Health Sciences and Psychology at Cleveland State University, is an occupational therapist and psychologist with experience working with individuals from diverse backgrounds in mental health, gerontology, and developmental disabilities. She is currently serving as Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Sciences and Health Professions for the NEOMED-CSU Partnership, a project that is directly applying some of the lessons found in this book.
Laura Martin, PhD, is Emerita Professor at Cleveland State University where she held multiple faculty appointments and served as Associate Dean, Anthropology Department Chair, and Director of a long-running public education program on Mayan culture. Trained as an anthropological linguist, she has taught and done research across several disciplines and has engaged in collaborative projects on topics ranging from anthropology and conservation biology to art history and migrant education. She held a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and has conducted workshops for teachers, health professionals, and researchers in the United States, Guatemala, and Mexico. She is currently a docent at the Cleveland Museum of Art, involved in a series of ongoing projects that combine art and medicine, and exhibits as a book artist.
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Culture in Clinical Care: Strategies for Competence explores theory and practice to define and describe the multidimensional nature of culture and its interaction with an individual's experience in the development of beliefs, values, and behavior.
