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- Title
Culturally Sensitive Social Work Practice With Arab Clients in Mental Health Settings.
- Authors
Al-Krenawi, Alean; Graham, John R.
- Abstract
Several culturally specific practical considerations should inform social work interventions with ethnic Arab peoples in Arab countries or in Western nations. These include taking into account gender relations, individuals' places in their families and communities, patterns of mental health services use, and, for practice in Western nations, the client's level of acculturation. Such aspects provide the basis for specific guidelines in working with ethnic Arab mental health clients. These include an emphasis on short-term, directive treatment; communication patterns that are passive and informal; patients' understanding of external loci of control and their use of ethnospecific idioms of distress; and, where appropriate, the integration of modern and traditional healing systems.
- Subjects
SOCIAL services; FAMILIES; MENTAL health services; ACCULTURATION; PEOPLE with intellectual disabilities
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 2000, Vol 25, Issue 1, p9
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/25.1.9