Multicultural Clients: A Professional Handbook for Health Care Providers and Social Workers

A professor of nursing, expert in multicultural health care and social services, describes the basic attitudes and beliefs of 15 important ethnic and religious groups in America and shows how these traits can affect behavior during illness or during social work interventions. Sensitive to problems of stereotyping, each chapter on an immigrant group provides some information about its homeland and population in the United States and then discusses the culture's modes of communication, its socioeconomic status, chief complaints, traditional family system, religious beliefs, views toward the elderly, child-rearing practices, culturally based health beliefs and practices, dietary patterns, characteristics relating to morbidity and mortality, beliefs about death and dying, physical assessment, and sources for further reading. The introduction points to a few key sources for continuing information about the care of multicultural patients and clients.

Table of Contents:
Introduction African Americans Arab Americans Chinese Americans Cuban Americans East Indian Americans Filipino Americans German Americans Haitian Americans Irish Americans Italian Americans Japanese Americans Jewish Americans Korean Americans Mexican Americans Vietnamese Americans Index

About the Author :
SYBIL M. LASSITER, Ph.D., R.N. , Associate Professor in Adult and Family/Community Nursing, East Tennessee State University, (formerly of Adelphi University, New York) has taught and advised at different institutions in the North and South. Her presentations have emphasized cultural diversity and its impact on the provision of health and social services to America's major ethnic and religious groups./e She has also written on the subject in various professional journals.

Review :
.,."as a practical guide, it will be a use to health care and human service workers who come into daily contact with the nation's many ethnic minorities. It is easy to read and presented in a straightforward way."-Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare ?...as a practical guide, it will be a use to health care and human service workers who come into daily contact with the nation's many ethnic minorities. It is easy to read and presented in a straightforward way.?-Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare ?This is a valuable work for postsecondary training and academic institutions with health-care and social work programs. It will also be useful for public libraries working with health and social agencies serving the cultural groups included.?-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin ?This is an excellent resource book for the library of a health care institution, one which should prove useful to clinical practitioners, health educators, and the markeing department.?- Health Care Strategic Management ?This straightforward handbook presents general information on the impact of culture in determining illness behavior as well as on decisions regarding treatment and care.?-Choice ..."as a practical guide, it will be a use to health care and human service workers who come into daily contact with the nation's many ethnic minorities. It is easy to read and presented in a straightforward way."-Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare "This is an excellent resource book for the library of a health care institution, one which should prove useful to clinical practitioners, health educators, and the markeing department."- Health Care Strategic Management "This straightforward handbook presents general information on the impact of culture in determining illness behavior as well as on decisions regarding treatment and care."-Choice "This is a valuable work for postsecondary training and academic institutions with health-care and social work programs. It will also be useful for public libraries working with health and social agencies serving the cultural groups included."-Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin