The need for cultural brokers in mental health services
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Inclusion of cultural brokers in mental health delivery systems proved to be beneficial among clinicians and cultural brokers themselves. On the part of clinicians, cultural brokers enhance their cultural awareness, sensitivity and competence. They enable clinicians to have greater understanding about the cultural dynamics of their clients and how other cultures perceive and treat mental illness. Also, consistency in approach with ethnic individuals is created when clinicians and cultural brokers establish a long-term working relationship.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1999
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In search of unity: some thoughts on family-professional relationships in service delivery systems
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Family health professionals should discard the traditional system of treatment in which the professional has the power and the patient is powerless to develop a new system based on compassion and understanding to serve people of diverse cultures. Professionals should have a feeling of oneness, a sense of non-duality which will help them to look at the problems of a family from its own prospective. Exploring one's cultural roots and thinking at a deeper level about one's place in the universe can help develop this sense of oneness.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1995
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Family involvement and empowerment in mental health service provision for children with emotional and behavioral disorders
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Mothers and respondents with less formal education are more involved in mental health services for children, than fathers and those with more education. A Family Involvement Scale and a Family Empowerment Scale help in the measurement of involvement and empowerment, respectively, in families with children having emotional and behavioral disorders. A study of the demographic correlates shows that involvement is a determinant of the level of parental empowerment, while the level of family involvement affects personal empowerment.
Publication Name: Journal of Child and Family Studies
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 1062-1024
Year: 1996
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