A model for describing low-income African American women's participation in breast and cervical cancer early detection and screening

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Preventive health programs for low-income black women should acknowledge their beliefs, values, and decision-making processes. Focus group and individual interviews with low-income black women regarding breast and cervical cancer screening elicited concerns about not having time for themselves, having friends or family who had cancer, wanting reassurance about their health, and wanting information. Women wanted, but rarely got, respectful treatment by caregivers. They helped each other out and made health care decisions in consultation with other women.

Health aspects, Medical screening, Health screening, Poor women, African American women, Cancer education

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Creating a culturally responsive psychotherapeutic environment for African American youths: a critical analysis

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Psychotherapists must understand black culture if they hope to help African American youths. Racism and the assumption that Euro-American cultural beliefs represent norms are embedded in the practice of psychotherapy. White therapists can provide therapy to African Americans but only by becoming knowledgeable about African American culture and interpersonal dynamics, how they differ from Eurocentric culture and social dynamics, and by maintaining vigilance for unconscious bias. Habermasian analysis is used to explore race and psychotherapy.

Analysis, Psychotherapy, African American youth, Ethnopsychology, Cross-cultural psychology

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Womanspirit: a journey into healing through art in breast cancer

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Art therapy can be used to express creativity and assist healing among a collective of breast cancer survivors. Women are able to confront their fears through expressive art forms, such as watercolor, poetry and photography. Women with a chronic illness such as breast cancer found that they could grow personally and collectively through Womanspirit.

Innovations, Medicine, Breast cancer, Art, Women's health services, Feminism and the arts, Medicine and art

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