Cross Cultural

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Cross Cultural

• Elements of Healing

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Worldview

• Interpretation depends upon the contextual world
  from which the interpreter speaks
• Provider interpretation must adapt to fit
  worldview of the person affected
• Jaguar Brings Fire SS Boulet

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What happens when?

• a provider isnt willing to adapt his/her
  interpretation to fit worldview of the person
  affected

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What are these elements?

• Steps to Survival Cross Cultural Healing
  Elements in the Treatment of AIDS
• By Leon McKusick Terry Tafoya

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Power of Naming

• How we define illness predicts how we will
  respond to it
• Consider these HIV definitions
• ARC
• HIV
• AIDS
• Chronic Health Condition
• Giving an explanatory model

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Punctuation

• Not providing punctuation is a disservice
• Most effective punctuation is provided at a
  moment of congruence
• Example starting medications
• Changing Woman Duke Sine

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Group Ritual

• Group reality is established thru ritual
• Group ritual provides a structure for powerful,
  open expression (not uncontrollable or
  overwhelming)
• Navajo Oral Tradition Harrison Begay

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Emotional Arousal

• Altered states of consciousness essential part
  of the healing transformation
• Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards

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Emotional Arousal

• Drumming, hymns or power songs become anchors or
  cues

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Self Mastery

• Promoting an increased sense of personal mastery
  in response to illness
• Sacred Path Cards

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Self Mastery

• Skill do not have to directly act upon the
  disease

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Personal Qualities of the Healer

• Research - important predictor of success with
  clients
• Genuineness, warmth, empathy
• Varies from culture to culture
• Medicine Woman SS Boulet

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Personal Qualities of the Healer

• Quickest way of disrupting clients perception of
  provider is by violating the Secondary Worldview

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Cross Cultural Elements of Healing

• Shared to assist providers in reframing and
  recontextualizing approaches to illness and its
  treatment
• Creatrix Woman SS Boulet