Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine

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ISBN: 9780736072281 | 0736072284
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 9/1/2010

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Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine is a must-have resource for any health care professional who works with athletes and patients of diverse cultural backgrounds. This unique text stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural attitudes, beliefs, and expectations so that athletic trainers and other health care professionals can modify their professional behavior accordingly to reflect their sensitivity to their patients & needs, ultimately resulting in a comfortable and positive health care experience for patients.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Exploring Cultural Competence	p. 1
Defining Cultural Competence	p. 3
What is Cultural Competence?	p. 4
Why is Cultural Competence Important?	p. 6
Theories and Models of Cultural Competence	p. 10
Process of Cultural Competence	p. 14
Terminology and Language	p. 15
Summary	p. 17
Learning Aids	p. 17
Cultural Beliefs and Practices	p. 19
Culture-Bound Syndromes	p. 20
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)	p. 26
Summary	p. 32
Learning Aids	p. 33
Demographics and Health Disparities	p. 35
Changing Demographics	p. 36
Relationship Between Demographics and Health Disparities	p. 40
Reducing Health Disparities	p. 42
Summary	p. 43
Learning Aids	p. 44
Cultural Awareness	p. 45
Understanding Difference	p. 47
Unpacking the Luggage	p. 49
Repacking the Luggage	p. 57
Summary	p. 58
Learning Aids	p. 58
Understanding Self	p. 61
Cultural Awareness and Self-Assessment	p. 62
Everyone Has Culture	p. 63
Generalizations, Stereotypes, and Prejudices	p. 65
Advantages, Disadvantages, and Privileges	p. 66
Summary	p. 70
Learning Aids	p. 71
Cultural Knowledge	p. 73
Native American	p. 75
American Indian	p. 77
Native Alaskan	p. 87
Summary	p. 92
Learning Aids	p. 92
Asian American and Pacific Islander American	p. 95
Chinese	p. 96
Filipino	p. 110
Vietnamese	p. 118
Summary	p. 126
Learning Aids	p. 127
Black	p. 131
African American	p. 133
Sub-Saharan African	p. 142
Haitian	p. 150
Summary	p. 158
Learning Aids	p. 158
Latino	p. 161
Mexican	p. 163
Puerto Rican	p. 171
Cuban	p. 176
Summary	p. 182
Learning Aids	p. 183
White European	p. 185
German	p. 187
Irish	p. 193
English	p. 198
Summary	p. 204
Learning Aids	p. 205
Middle Eastern	p. 207
Arab-Collective (Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian)	p. 208
Iranian	p. 217
Summary	p. 225
Learning Aids	p. 227
Cultural Skill and Cultural Encounters	p. 229
Eliciting Information	p. 231
A Revised Cultural Formulation and the Explanatory Models Approach	p. 232
Other Models for Eliciting Information	p. 235
Eliciting Information Through Use of an Interpreter	p. 236
Summary	p. 238
Learning Aids	p. 239
Culturally Based Physical Assessment	p. 241
Taking an Oral History	p. 242
Inspecting and Observing Physical Signs	p. 247
Palpating	p. 248
Summary	p. 249
Learning Aids	p. 249
Working in a Culturally Competent Health Care Organization	p. 251
Cultural Desire in the Health Care Organization	p. 253
Cultural Awareness in the Health Care Organization	p. 254
Cultural Knowledge in the Health Care Organization	p. 259
Cultural Skill in the Health Care Organization	p. 261
Cultural Encounters in the Health Care Organization	p. 262
Summary	p. 262
Learning Aids	p. 263
Appendix	p. 265
Glossary	p. 289
References	p. 295
Index	p. 313
About the Authors	p. 321
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