Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Preface
Foreword by Ashwini Sehgal, MD
Prologue
Chapter 1 Introduction: Defining Culture and Cultural
Competence
Chapter 2 Understanding Culture
Chapter 3 Distinguishing the Cultural and the Social
Chapter 4 Identifying the Personal Within the Cultural
Chapter 5 Appreciating the Role of Culture in Health Care
Chapter 6 Recognizing Cultural Differences: Lessons from
Ethnography
Chapter 7 Negotiating Cultural Differences in Working with
Clients
Chapter 8 Evaluating Clients and Designing Interventions in a
Diverse World
Chapter 9 Assessing Intercultural Interactions and
Interventions
Index
Bette R. Bonder, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Professor of
Health Sciences and Psychology at Cleveland State University, USA,
is an occupational therapist and psychologist with experience
working with individuals from diverse backgrounds in mental health,
gerontology, and developmental disabilities. She is currently
serving as Special Assistant to the Dean of the College of Sciences
and Health Professions for the NEOMED-CSU Partnership, a project
that is directly applying some of the lessons found in this
book.
Laura Martin, PhD, is Emerita Professor at
Cleveland State University, USA, where she held multiple faculty
appointments and served as Associate Dean, Anthropology Department
Chair, and Director of a long-running public education program on
Mayan culture. Trained as an anthropological linguist, she has
taught and done research across several disciplines and has engaged
in collaborative projects on topics ranging from anthropology and
conservation biology to art history and migrant education. She held
a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004 and has conducted workshops for
teachers, health professionals, and researchers in the United
States, Guatemala, and Mexico. She is currently a docent at the
Cleveland Museum of Art, involved in a series of ongoing projects
that combine art and medicine, and exhibits as a book artist.
"The strongest part of the book is the development of skills and abilities of the ethnographic mindset: curiosity, imagination, empathy, etc., considering where one is positioned both physically and metaphorically in the encounter with other human beings, then having the capacity to take the ethnographic mindset into approaching assessment, client-centered goal setting, and intervention...Bonder and Martin's book does an exemplary job of positioning the discussion of cultural competence outside a framework of a dominant culture that recognizes other cultures."
- Carla Wilhite, OTD/L, OTR/L, University of New Mexico, Doody's Review Service
"The authors' desire for maximum engagement between the
reader and the text is clear from the most cursory glance at the
book. Each chapter begins with a clear list of learner objectives,
while the numerous reflective questions provoke an enquiring reader
to pause, reflect, be curious, and thus discover the nuances of
their own cultural beliefs. The ancillary material accessible on
the internet and the availability of an instructor's manual make
the book an appropriate resource for students and workshop
participants; however, due to the interactive design, it would also
be a valuable resource for any occupational therapy practitioner
engaged in personal reflective practice."
- Catherine Beynon-Pindar, Senior Occupational Therapist, The
Retreat, York, British Journal of Occupational Therapy
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