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Background Information
The materials in this section address the challenges of communicating with people from different cultures. They focus on the communication between either health care practitioners or teachers, and the immigrants with whom they work. Some materials give examples and stories about culture-clash in a health care setting, or give advice on developing health education messages targeted to people from other cultures. Other materials describe how to draw on and validate adult learners' cross-cultural experiences, how to address cultural awareness in an adult education classroom, and how to recognize and address mental distress resulting from refugee experiences. Some of the books also include ideas for classroom activities and lessons. You may want to check the Websites section, for sites that include more background information about the health needs of people from different cultures.
- Cultural Adjustment, Mental Health, and ESL: The Refugee Experience, the Role of the Teacher, and ESL Activities
- Cultural Awareness Teaching Techniques
- Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for the Health Professions
- Culture & Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide
- Learners' Lives as Curriculum: Six Journeys to Immigrant Literacy
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
- Technical Assistance Bulletins: Developing Effective Messages and Materials for Hispanic/Latino Audiences and Communicating Appropriately with Asian and Pacific Islander Audiences
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World Education
November 2000