Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals, Second Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774810254 ISBN 13: 9780774810258

Publisher: UBC Press, 2006

Synopsis

Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals, Second Edition describes Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, South Asian, and Central American ethno-cultural groups. It stresses the need to understand both the cultural beliefs and daily life issues facing immigrants, such as work, income, child-rearing, and aging, all of which impinge on health. Each chapter describes one ethno-cultural group, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for emigrating, and challenges in adjusting to a new culture. With its wealth of practical information, this book will be particularly useful to those working directly with immigrants and refugees, such as health care providers and administrators, teachers and school administrators, and social workers, as well as medical students, sociologists, and anthropologists.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy Waxler-Morrison is associate professor, emerita, of social work and sociology at the University of British Columbia. Joan M. Anderson is a professor of nursing at the University of British Columbia. Elizabeth Richardson is a social worker with the Ministry of Social Services and Family Development, British Columbia. Natalie A. Chambers holds an M.A. in anthropology from Simon Fraser University.

Review

Concise, well-written, informative, and relevant to practice in Canada. All sections provide a useful overview of historical experiences, adjustment styles, preferred values, and typical ways of thinking. (Susan E. Smith Canadian Journal of Public Health)

Praise for the first edition:

I highly recommend this book as a teaching manual and encourage health care agencies to make copies available to staff. It promotes and encourages an approach to the delivery of health care that is culturally sensitive.

(L. Dayler Gerontology Update)

An extremely practical handbook on diverse aspects of cross-cultural care ... The terminology used in this text makes it readily understandable and easy yet interesting reading. (Carole-Lynne LeNavenec Canadian Ethnic Studies)

As North America’ ethnic populations increase, health care and social service workers are recognizing that in order to provide culturally sensitive and effective treatment programs they must be more aware of the particular needs of their ethnic patients. This newly revised edition of Cross-Cultural Caring: A Handbook for Health Professionals describes Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian, Chinese, Japanese, Iranian, South Asian, and Central American ethno-cultural groups. It stresses the need to understand both the cultural beliefs and the daily life concerns facing immigrants, such as work, income, child-rearing, and aging, all of which impinge on health.

Reflecting the questions health professionals most often ask about immigrant groups, each chapter describes one ethno-cultural community, discussing such issues as childbirth, mental illness, dental care, hospitalization, and death, as well as home country culture, common reasons for emigrating, and challenges in adjusting to a new culture.

This new edition provides up-to-date statistics and fresh analysis, responding to changing trends in immigration. Additional material includes a new chapter addressing the special circumstances of refugees; short real-life stories of immigrants’ and refugees’ experiences; and a thorough, easy-to-use index.

About this edition

• Publisher: UBC Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0774810254
• ISBN 13: 9780774810258
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Waxler-Morrison Nancy, Anderson Joan M., Richardson Elizabeth, Chambers Natalie A.