CrossCultural Caring, 2nd ed. A Handbook for Health Professionals

As North America’s 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.

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.