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Culture-Centered Counseling Skills as a Preventive Strategy for College Health Services

Successful counseling is possible if health care providers learn to interpret behaviors within cultural context. The paper describes a culture-centered approach, using a grid that matches same/different behaviors and expectations. Culturally accurate knowledge and skills provide a developmental sequence for more appropriate health-care guidance in multicultural settings. (SM)

• Author/Creator: Pedersen, Paul B.
• Date Published: Jul
• Journal/Secondary Title: Journal of American College Health
• Number: 1
• Volume: 44
• Year: 1995

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Counselors
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Educators
• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Consciousness Raising
• Subject: Counseling
• Subject: Counselors
• Subject: Cultural Awareness
• Subject: Cultural Differences
• Subject: Cultural Influences
• Subject: Health Promotion
• Subject: Higher Education
• Subject: School Health Services
• Subject: Skill Development

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