Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!
The Counseling Psychologist
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via ISI Web of Science (1)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Killion, C. M.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati  
What's this?

Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care

Trend or Major Thrust in Health Care Delivery?

Cheryl M. Killion

Case Western Reserve University, cheryl.killion{at}case.edu

In this reaction article to the Major Contribution, the merits and challenges of implementing patient-centered culturally sensitive health care, or cultural competence plus, are explicated. Three themes are addressed: separate but equal?, factoring in mental health, and sharing the load. The need to refine the conceptualization of the two distinct, yet converging, components of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care is stressed to assure appropriate implementation, evaluation, and acceptance of this innovative system of care. More focus on mental, rather than physical, health is advocated. Multidisciplinary collaboration is accented, as counseling psychologists contemplate engaging in the implementation of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care. The value of patient-centered culturally sensitive health care for the reduction of health disparities is underscored.

The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 35, No. 5, 726-734 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0011000007303630
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 The Counseling PsychologistHome page
C. M. Tucker and K. C. Herman
Resolving the Paradoxes of and Barriers to Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care: Lessons From the History of Counseling and Community Psychology
The Counseling Psychologist, September 1, 2007; 35(5): 735 - 743.
[Abstract] [PDF]