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A Cultural Safety Approach to Health Psychology, Paperback / softback Book

A Cultural Safety Approach to Health Psychology Paperback / softback

Part of the Sustainable Development Goals Series series

Paperback / softback

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This book applies the concept of cultural safety to the field of health psychology in a US context as a means to achieve health equity.

First developed in New Zealand by Maori midwives, cultural safety can be understood as both a philosophy and a way of working within a social model of health as an alternative approach to understanding health and illness.

Health, social, and human service professionals are at the forefront of interactions with a range of people who often experience disparities in health and social outcomes.

In thirteen chapters, the authors explore the social determinants of health; the practices and pitfalls of intercultural communication; and community capacity, resilience, and strengths as correctives to discourses of deficiency.

The book concludes with a comparative look at cultural safety in different national contexts, and a discussion of the value of critical reflective practice.

Complete with chapter objectives, scenarios, suggested readings and films, and questions for critical thinking, this book is an invaluable resource for students and practitioners alike in health psychology and related fields, and a vital contribution to the literature on cultural safety. 

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