A Psychiatric Residency Curriculum on the Care of African American Patients

Autor/inn/en	Harris, Herbert W.; Felder, Diane; Clark, Michelle O.
Titel	A Psychiatric Residency Curriculum on the Care of African American Patients
Quelle	In: Academic Psychiatry, 28 (2004) 3, S.226-239 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-9670
Schlagwörter	African Americans; African American Culture; Mental Disorders; Psychiatry; Patients; Cultural Awareness; Medical Students; Graduate Students; Cultural Influences; Curriculum Development; Competence; Physicians + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Psychiatrie; Patient; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Kompetenz; Physician; Doctor; Arzt
Abstract	Training psychiatric residents to address cross-cultural issues in their practice of psychiatry is a necessary objective of contemporary psychiatric education. Cultural issues play a critical role in the formation and expression of a patient's personality. In addition, they are a major determinant of the context in which mental illness develops. This proposed curriculum outlines a systematic progression toward cultural competence with populations of African descent. It begins with increasing the residents' awareness of their own cultural identity. The concept of achieving cultural competence as a continuum is utilized. Trainees should be prepared for any unfavorable reactions to this novel material. The curriculum must include accurate historic information about black culture, and general topics of diagnosis and treatment of African Americans must be covered. This should occur in congruence with trainees' development from students to residents to psychiatrists, as they move from inpatient to outpatient, hospital to community, close supervision to autonomous functioning, gaining both skill and confidence. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10