Full Description
Multicultural Care, now in paperback, offers a comprehensive, practical approach for enhancing a clinician's understanding of clients amp rsquo contexts, developing a multicultural therapeutic relationship, and adapting a healing approach to one's clients amp rsquo 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 consciousness. Ample clinical vignettes are provided, along with clear, easy-to-remember tools for integrating multicultural sensitivity into clinical practice.
Importantly, the book draws on research and the APA Multicultural Guidelines to support the models and principles, which are illustrated with clinical material. This book is a must-read for all clinicians.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction. Multicultural Care in Clinical Practice
Chapter . Cultural Self-Assessment: Knowing Others, Knowing Yourself
Chapter 2. Engagement: Telling Stories
Chapter 3. Multicultural Assessment: Understanding Lives in Context
Chapter 4. Cultural Analysis: Looking Through a Multicultural Lens
Chapter 5. Multicultural Therapeutic Relationships: Seeing Yourself in the Other
Chapter . Psychopharmacology and Psychological Testing: Engaging in Cultural Critical Thinking
Chapter 7. Multicultural Treatment: Part . Fostering Empowerment
Chapter 8. Multicultural Treatment: Part 2. Incorporating Culture-Specific Healing
Chapter 9. Multicultural Consciousness: Extending Cultural Competence Beyond the Clinical Encounter
Memoirs of Culturally Diverse Individuals
Resources
Glossary
References
Index
About the Author
