Promoting Cultural Diversity: Strategies for Health Care Professionals / Edition 1

by Kathryn H. (Hopkins) Kavanagh, Patricia H. Kennedy

Overview

Increasingly, health care professionals work in settings composed of ethnically, socially and economically disparate populations. Kavanagh and Kennedy analyze the issues that surround cultural, gender, ideological and experiential diversity, and focus on communication skills and intervention strategies that are effective in situations characterized by diversity. They also present a repertoire of experiential strategies and aids for learning about diversity and offer scenarios, collages and extensive case studies to illustrate and encourage the analysis of real life situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803946576
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/10/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Conceptual Background
Communication, Intervention, and Diversity
Application
Case Studies and Collages