Rethinking cultural competence: InsightS from indigenous community treatment settings

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 206-222

  Wendt, Dennis C ^a   Gone, Joseph P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

American Indians; cultural competence; evidence based practice; First Nations peoples; indigenous peoples; multicultural counseling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION GROUPS; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 84859800644     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461511425622     Document Type: Article

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