Abstract
Culture is the ever-present factor that influences the ways we communicate with patients, inhibits or enhances our understanding of their illnesses, and provides the context that explains their reactions to the event. The context may be the culture of the family, the culture of the treatment team’s hospital, and/or the culture that defines the legal standards in patient care. Bringing clarity to difficult psychiatric consultations often requires a culturally-informed understanding of the vulnerabilities and strengths of the patient, the family system, and the treatment team, well. In this chapter we have focused on how cultural competence may facilitate communication, diagnosis, and treatment.
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Delgado, S.V., Strawn, J.R. (2014). The Culture. In: Difficult Psychiatric Consultations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39552-9_7
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