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Cultural Competence

Friday's Progress Notes - March 16, 2001
Mental Health Information - Vol. 5 Issue 6
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CONTENTS

1. Understanding diverse cultures to improve patient care
2. Multicultural competence and counselor training
3. Guidelines for providing care to diverse populations
4. Cultural competence compendium
5. Psychological well-being of immigrant youth

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John L. Miller, MD

1. AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN
Cultural Competence
Understanding patients' diverse cultures -- their values, traditions, history and institutions -- is integral to eliminating health care disparities and providing high-quality patient care.
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20001000/58cult.html

2. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE NETWORK
Cultural Competence in Serving Children and Adolescents
Culturally competent service providers are aware and respectful of the importance of the values, beliefs, traditions, customs, and parenting styles of the people they serve.
http://www.athealth.com/Practitioner/particles/culturalcompetence.html

3. AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
APA Guidelines for Providers of Psychological Services to Ethnic, Linguistic, and Culturally Diverse Populations
Psychological service providers need a sociocultural framework to consider diversity of values, interactional styles, and cultural expectations in a systematic fashion.
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/guide.html

4. AMERICAN MEDICAL NEWS
Cultural Competency Critical in Elder Care
The need to address disparities in treatment and diagnosis of Alzheimer's and other age-related diseases increases as the percentage of minorities in the elderly population increases.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2001/08/06/hll20806.htm

5. NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Psychological Well-Being and Educational Achievement Among Immigrant Youth
This chapter explores the social-psychological costs to those who migrate to other cultures.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309065453/html/410.html

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