Fundamentals: Cultural Competence Resources

Publications:

• Chang-Muy, F., E. Congress, (Eds.) (2009) Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees, NY, Springer Publishing Co.
• Fadiman, Anne, (1997) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down NY, Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Gerrity, E., T.M. Keane, F. Tumz (Eds.) (2001) The Mental Health Consequences of Torture, Plenum Publisher, NY
• Hoffman, Eva, Lost in Translation, 1989, NY, Penguin Book
• Irish, D., K. Lundquist, V. Nelson, (Eds.) (1993) Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death and Grief, London, Taylor & Franas
• Kitavama, S. H.R. Markus (Eds.), (1994) Emotion and Culture, Washington DC, APA
• Kleinman, A. et al. (1978). Clinical lessons from anthropologic and cross-cultural research. Annals of Internal Medicine, 88, 251-258.
• Nader K., N. Dubrow, B. Stamm, (1999) Honoring Differences: Cultural Issues in the Treatment of Trauma and Loss, Philadelphia, Brunner/Mazel
• Patrice-Some’, Malidoma, (1998) The Healing Wisdom of Africa:  Finding Life Purpose through Nature, Ritual and Community, NY, Penguin, NY
• Smith, Hawthorne E.  Multicultural Issues in the Treatment of Survivors of Torture and Refugee Trauma: Toward an Interactive Model, in Smith, Hawthorne, Keller, Alan, and  Lhewa, DW, eds. Like a Refugee Camp on First Avenue: Insights and Experiences from the Bellevue-NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. New York: Bellevue-NYU Program for Survivors of Torture, 2007, Chapter 2 (PDF attached)
• Sue, D.W. & Torino, G.C. (2005). Racial-cultural competence: Awareness, knowledge and skills. In R.T. Carter (Ed.), Handbook of racial-cultural psychology and counseling (pp. 3-18). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Sue, S. (1998). In search of cultural competence in psychotherapy and counseling. American Psychologist, 53, 440-448.

Documents:

Multicultural Issues in the Treatment of Survivors

Websites:

Cultural Competency standards
National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) (CLAS Standards, also printed in Healing the Hurt, p.38)

National Center for Cultural Competence: Cultural Competency Self-Assessment Tools

Culture-specific disorders

World Health Organization: Traditional medicine

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