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2006 No 3 - Cultural Competency I - Seeing and Knowing
This issue begins a two-part focus by Synergy on the broad field of cultural competency in mental health.
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Anthropology in the Clinic: The Problem of Cultural Competency and How to Fix It
Arthur Kleinman*, Peter Benson - Cultural competency has become a fashionable term for clinicians and researchers. Yet no one can define this term precisely enough to operationalize it in clinical training and best practices. From PLoS Medicine | www.plosmedicine.org 1673October 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 10
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Communicating Effectively – A Way Forward for Multicultural Mental Health in the ACT
Aine Tierney - The ACT Transcultural Mental Health Network held it’s in inaugural forum, ‘Communicating Effectively – The Challenges and Barriers to Using Accredited Interpreters in Mental Health’ on Thursday the 26th October 2006 at the Theo Notaras Multicultural Centre in Canberra
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Carer Viewpoint
Antonia Kapsalis - Having two children experience mental health challenges is one thing, but using that as the start of a journey to local, state and national advocacy and mentoring for CALD carers, is another thing altogether.
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Consumer Viewpoint
Aloma Lane -
In My Opinion
Greg Turner - Moving from Cultural Competency in Multicultural Mental Health to Contextual Competency
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Ringing in the Changes for a Culturally Competent Workforce
Sarah Stewart - The term ‘cultural competence’ is steadily gaining currency in Australia, but has not yet been embraced to the extent that it has been in other countries. One of the objectives of the Diversity Health Institute (DHI) is to provide a forum for the exchange and cross-fertilisation of knowledge and skills of those working in the field of diversity health. This position paper is offered as a contribution towards this objective.
