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Article: Perspective.(Community Psychiatry)(culturally sensitive intervention)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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To quote George Clinton of Funkadelic, "You don't drink what I drink; You don't smoke what I smoke: You don't think like I think; You don't joke like I joke. I got a thing, you got a thing, everybody's got a thing."
Everybody has a thing, and a culturally sensitive intervention would respect that thing and run with it.
To be culturally sensitive, an intervention must have content that is welcoming to the target culture. It must contain issues of relevance to the culture and not be offensive. And it must be familiar and endorsed by the target culture.
If a given intervention has universal principles of health behavior change--aspects of the ...
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