Promoting cultural diversity : strategies for health care professionals / Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh & Patricia H. Kennedy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index.

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1. Conceptual background. Social interaction and communication -- An interactive decision model -- Definitions -- Social categories -- Health beliefs and practices -- Care -- Cultural relativism -- Social stratification -- Professional responsibility -- Summary -- Questions for discussion -- Notes on the myths -- Part 2. Communication, intervention, and diversity. Intervention and diversity -- Communication to affirm diversity -- Diversity, interactive patterns, and mutual communication -- Communication role models -- Barriers and resistance to communication -- Communication skills -- Practice strategies -- Other activities -- Activity 1 -- Activity 2 -- Activity 3 -- Activity 4. Collage A : where is equally for Fred Nightingale? -- Summary -- Questions for discussion -- Notes on myths -- Part 3. Application : case studies and collages. Case 1. A practice situation involving social and economic differences -- Case 2. A practice situation involving a health condition -- Case 3. A practice situation involving race -- Case 4. A practice situation involving ethnicity -- Case 5. A practice situation involving age -- Case 6. A practice situation involving sex role and gender -- Case 7. A practice situation involving socioeconomic differences -- Case 8. A practice situation involving ethnicity -- Case 9. A practice situation involving beliefs -- Case 10. A practice situation involving several variables -- Case 11. A practice situation involving age and ethnicity -- Case 12. A practice situation involving a heath condition -- Nate : a practice situation involving institutionalized racism -- An analysis of Nate's case -- Assessment -- Stereotypes and assumptions -- Social process issues in the preceding assessment and analysis -- Intervention -- Evaluation -- Collages. Collage 1. Ethics : weighing costs and benefits -- Collage 2. Values and morals : Who's right? Whose right? -- Collage 3. Social pressure, social protection -- Collage 4. The price of dichotomies : "have's" and "have-nots" -- Collage 5. The culture of violence -- Collage 6. The use and abuse of social institutions -- Collage 7. Race : biological trivia and social fuse -- Collage 8. Compromised development and historical backlash -- Collage 9. Sores and scars deep within the system -- Collage 10. Maybe someday we can say, "Racism used to be...but not anymore" -- Collage 11. The cost of categories : challenge? change? communication? -- Collage 12. Access : civil right or civil rite? -- Collage 13. Man and Wo(mb)=man and not-man -- Collage 14. Woman's worth : the wedge between equality and patriarchy -- Collage 15. Asserting female values in a male world -- Collage 15. The double whammy : taught to adjust to a man's world, expected to like it -- Summary -- References -- Index -- About the authors.

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