Appalachian cultural competency
Subtitle: a guide for medical, mental health, and social service professionals
By: edited by Susan E. Keefe.
Contributors: Keefe, Susan E.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Brand: Univ Tennessee Press; Univ Tennessee Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Social service, Rural -- Appalachian Region; Human services -- Appalachian Region; Medical personnel and patient -- Appalachian Region; Appalachian Region -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Susan E. Keefe; title: pt. I. Preparing for work in an Appalachian community : adopting the reflexive practitioner role; title: Negotiating rural Southern mountain speech / Anita Puckett; title: Connecting what we know to what we do : modifying interview techniques for the collective self in Appalachia / Melinda Bollar Wagner; title: To listen is to learn : the social worker in rural Appalachia / Carol Gross; title: Remembering the dead, comforting the living : adapting Christian ministry to Appalachian death practices / Marc Sherrod; title: pt. II. Acquiring cultural competency : understanding and respecting the Appalachian "difference"; title: Mediating perceptions of parent/child co-sleeping in Eastern Kentucky / Susan Abbott-Jamieson; title: Creating cultural competence among Appalachian nursing students / Charlotte F. Chase; title: Educating culturally sensitive health professionals in Appalachia / Anne B. Blakeney; title: pt. III. Transcending stereotypes in research and practice : examples from health and wellness; title: Health and life-style indicators in a rural Appalachian county : implications for health-care practice / Susan E. Keefe and Paul Parsons; title: Culturally relevant preventive health care for southern Appalachian women / Carol C. Stephens; title: Promoting wellness among the Eastern Band of Cherokees / Lisa J. Lefler; title: pt. IV. Choosing a theoretical paradigm : application of the cultural model in mental health research and services; title: Designing employee assistance programs for Appalachian working-class women : the Alcohol and Stress Research Project / Benita J. Howell and Judith Ivy Fiene; title: "Nerves" in rural and urban Appalachia / Rhoda H. Halperin and Jennifer Reiter-Purtill; title: Psychological testing in rural Appalachia / Susan E. Keefe, Janice L. Hastrup, and Sherilyn N. Thomas; title: Mental health therapy for Appalachian clients / Susan E. Keefe and Susie Greene; title: Evaluating a rite of passage program for adolescent Appalachian males / Michael E. Maloney.