Böcker av Sana Loue

Too often, cultural competence training has led to the inadvertent marginalization of some individuals and groups and the reinforcement of existing stereotypes. This text explores the concept of cultural humility, which offers an exciting way forward for those engaged in the helping professions. In contrast to cultural competence, cultural humility challenges individuals to embark on a lifelong course of self-examination and transformational learning that will enable them to engage more authentically with clients, patients, colleagues, and others. The book traces our understanding of and responses to diversity and inclusion over time with a focus on the United States.Topics explored include:Us and Them: The Construction of CategoriesCultural Competence as an Approach to Understanding DifferenceTransformational Learning Through Cultural HumilityFostering Cultural Humility in the Institutional/Organizational ContextCultural Humility and the Helping ProfessionalThe book presents examples that illustrate how the concept of cultural humility can be implemented on an institutional level and in the context of individual-level interactions, such as those between a healthcare provider or therapist and a client.Diversity, Cultural Humility, and the Helping Professions: Building Bridges Across Difference is essential reading for the health professions (nursing, medicine), social work, psychology, art therapy, and other helping professions.

Allzu oft hat die Ausbildung in kultureller Kompetenz zu einer unbeabsichtigten Ausgrenzung einiger Personen und Gruppen und zur Verstärkung bestehender Stereotypen geführt. Dieser Text erforscht das Konzept der kulturellen Demut, das einen spannenden Weg nach vorne für diejenigen bietet, die in helfenden Berufen tätig sind. Im Gegensatz zu kultureller Kompetenz fordert kulturelle Demut den Einzelnen heraus, sich auf einen lebenslangen Kurs der Selbstprüfung und des transformativen Lernens einzulassen, der es ihm ermöglicht, authentischer mit Klienten, Patienten, Kollegen und anderen umzugehen. Das Buch zeichnet unser Verständnis von und unsere Reaktionen auf Vielfalt und Integration im Laufe der Zeit nach, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf den Vereinigten Staaten liegt.Zu den untersuchten Themen gehören:Wir und die Anderen: Die Konstruktion von KategorienKulturelle Kompetenz als Ansatz zum Verstehen von UnterschiedenTransformatives Lernen durch kulturelle BescheidenheitFörderung von kultureller Demut im institutionellen/organisatorischen KontextKulturelle Demut und die helfende FachkraftDas Buch zeigt anhand von Beispielen, wie das Konzept der kulturellen Bescheidenheit auf institutioneller Ebene und im Kontext individueller Interaktionen, z. B. zwischen einem Gesundheitsdienstleister oder Therapeuten und einem Klienten, umgesetzt werden kann.Diversität, kulturelle Demut und die helfenden Berufe: Building Bridges Across Difference" ist eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für Gesundheitsberufe (Krankenpflege, Medizin), Sozialarbeit, Psychologie, Kunsttherapie und andere helfende Berufe.

This highly practical text surveys the myriad legal and ethical issues that social workers encounter both in daily practice and under special circumstances. Its initial section presents concepts in law and ethics that unite practitioners, researchers, and academics in the field, such as confidentiality, informed consent, and the interplay between social work and administrative and judicial systems. A selection of representative cases illustrates legal aspects involved in providing services to families, children, elders, and persons with disabilities. Also included are chapters on advocacy in social work, both in its potential to influence policy and on the global stage as part of the ongoing struggle for human rights and dignity.Among the topics covered:Confidentiality and the social worker-client relationshipLiability issues for social workers in the clinical contextLegal issues arising in the context of social work researchThe social worker and forensic social workSocial worker involvement in access to school and school servicesSocial work in the context of health careLegal issues working with immigrants, refugees, and asyleesThe interface between social work and human rightsLegal Issues in Social Work Practice and Research is an interdisciplinary text aimed at social work, mental health, and legal professionals. It enhances the power of social work as an integrative system to support clients¿ rights and agency.

Understanding Theology and Homosexuality in African-American Communities focuses specifically on helping mental professionals understand the scriptural and historical bases for the negative stance of some African American churches towards same-sex relations, and how that understanding is relevant within the context of mental health care.

This book serves as a reference for social workers, psychologists, counselors, and other mental health professionals who utilize therapeutic farm therapy with their children or adult clients.

Epidemiology has often been defined as the study of the distribution of disease, together with the distribution of factors that may modify that risk of disease. and between "mainstream" populations and those who become or remain marginalized and stigmatized due to disease or perceived disease.

In this textbook, the author defines what is meant by diversity and reviews what we know today about the effects of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine and crack, hallucinogens and heroin.

This text provides a foundation for the initiation of advocacy efforts and for the evaluation of their success and includes topics such as: specific strategies, grassroots advocacy efforts, formation and development of coalitions, advocacy efforts in legislatures, administrative agencies, court, and the media.

How partner violence is responded to, individually and collectively, may well determine whether the violence can be prevented or will cease once begun.This text is intended to serve as a basic resource for the student, clinician and researcher.

This textbook provides a brief history of human experimentation and reviews various theories of ethics from which the principles and rules that govern this research are derived.

How partner violence is responded to, individually and collectively, may well determine whether the violence can be prevented or will cease once begun.This text is intended to serve as a basic resource for the student, clinician and researcher.