Culture-Centered Counseling Skills as a Preventive Strategy for College Health Services |
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Authors: | Paul B Pedersen PhD |
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Institution: | Syracuse University , Syracuse, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | Abstract All learning occurs in a cultural context. Successful counseling can be achieved by training healthcare providers to interpret behaviors in their cultural context. The author describes a culture-centered approach, using a cultural grid that matches same/different behaviors with same/different expectations. Clients with shared positive expectations may display dissonant and apparently negative behaviors. Culturally accurate knowledge and culturally appropriate skills provide a three-level developmental sequence for more accurate and more appropriate healthcare guidance in such multicultural settings as those met on the college campus. |
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Keywords: | counseling cultural identity healthcare international students |
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