Embracing Uncertainty as a Path to Competence: Cultural Safety, Empathy, and Alterity in Clinical Training

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 365-372

  Kirmayer, Laurence J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDITORIAL; EDUCATION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TEACHING;

CANADA; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CURRICULUM; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREJUDICE; TEACHING;

EID: 84878433970     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-013-9314-2     Document Type: Editorial

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