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  • Genre:MEDICAL
  • SubGenre:Education & Training
  • Language:English
  • Pages:152
  • Paperback ISBN:9781543994957

ARE YOU CULTURALLY COMPETENT?

CLINICIANS DISCUSS THE RELEVANCE OF CULTURAL COMPETENCY IN THEIR PRACTICES

by ELISA BELL

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Overview

Are You Culturally Competent? explores ways in which the ability to understand and communicate with people who have different life experiences and heritages, impacts the quality of patient care. When medical professionals become aware of their conscious and unconscious biases, they can meaningfully improve their ability to truly understand a patient’s life and healthcare concerns, putting themselves on the path to accurate diagnoses and successful treatment plans. 

Description
Noted cultural competency lecturer, Dr. Elisa Bell has penned a book that examines the problem of cultural competency in the heath profession. Through practical interviews and essays, Bell brings to light successful practices and pragmatic strategies that have worked for health professionals across the country. The book offers an historical perspective on a current problem in an attempt to enlighten health care providers and administrators. In Are You Culturally Competent, Dr. Bell addresses the prevailing problem of cultural competency with the eye of a trained physician investigating both culture and race and how they function within American society. This book is designed to bring awareness of cross-cultural issues in medicine. Medical professionals will be better equipped to identify and understand cultural differences and values, attitudes, and behaviors between groups of various cultures. The medical professional will learn how cultural affects a patient's perceptions and judgements about the world.
About the author

Are You Culturally Competent? author Elisa P. Bell, MD brings a variety of perspectives to examining the complex issues of cultural competency facing healthcare professionals across the United States. 

 

A board-certified physician in both adult and child/adolescent psychiatry, she has practiced medicine for 30 years in Illinois, Michigan and Indiana. She has specialized in treating affective disorders, including ADHD, and disruptive behavioral disorders as well as Autism Spectrum Disorders in children and adolescents. 

 

Beginning in 1999, Dr. Bell worked in Illinois’ juvenile justice system, focusing on trauma and post-traumatic stress disorders in child and adolescent populations. Today, she treats convicted adult felons at the north central intake region for the Illinois Department of Corrections.   

 

Dr. Bell served as a consultant on matters of child and adolescent psychology for the Urban Health Initiative Center for Community Health and Vitality at the University of Chicago in 2010. She also wrote the document addressing community mental health issues for The Woodlawn Zone Project and served on the CARC Board at the University of Chicago for ongoing research in the African American Community in Chicago. 

 

A distinguished alumna of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Dr. Bell completed an internship in pediatrics at Loyola Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois an adult residency in psychiatry at Illinois State Psychiatric Institute, and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.