Multicultural care : a clinician's guide to cultural competence /
Lillian Comas-Díaz.
- First edition
- x, 317 p. : tables ; 24 cm.
- Psychologists in independent practice .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-298) and index.
Introduction. Multicultural Care in Clinical Practice -- Chapter 1. Cultural Self-Assessment: Knowing Others, Knowing Yourself -- Chapter 2. Engagement: Telling Stories -- Chapter 3. Multicultural Assessment: Understanding Lives in Context -- Chapter 4. Cultural Analysis: Looking Through a Multicultural Lens -- Chapter 5. Multicultural Therapeutic Relationships: Seeing Yourself in the Other -- Chapter 6. Psychopharmacology and Psychological Testing: Engaging in Cultural Critical Thinking -- Chapter 7. Multicultural Treatment: Part 1. Fostering Empowerment -- Chapter 8. Multicultural Treatment: Part 2. Incorporating Culture-Specific Healing -- Chapter 9. Multicultural Consciousness: Extending Cultural Competence Beyond the Clinical Encounter -- Memoirs of Culturally Diverse Individuals -- Resources -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
Multicultural Care, now in paperback, offers a comprehensive, practical approach for enhancing a clinician's understanding of clients’ contexts, developing a multicultural therapeutic relationship, and adapting a healing approach to one's clients’ needs. Each chapter demonstrates the application of cultural competence to a different aspect of clinical practice: self-awareness, assessment, engagement, treatment, psychopharmacology and testing, folk healing, and general multicultural consciousness. Ample clinical vignettes are provided, along with clear, easy-to-remember tools for integrating multicultural sensitivity into clinical practice. Importantly, the book draws on research and the APA Multicultural Guidelines to support the models and principles, which are illustrated with clinical material. This book is a must-read for all clinicians.