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Cross-Cultural Healing Perspectives: Enhancing Interpretation for Personalized Care

Explore the essential elements of cross-cultural healing and the importance of adapting interpretations to fit diverse worldviews. Learn about rituals, emotional arousal, self-mastery, and the qualities of effective healers across different cultures.

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Cross-Cultural Healing Perspectives: Enhancing Interpretation for Personalized Care

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  1. Cross Cultural Elements of Healing

  2. 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

  3. What happens when? • … a provider isn’t willing to adapt his/her interpretation to fit worldview of the person affected

  4. What are these elements? Steps to Survival: Cross Cultural Healing Elements in the Treatment of AIDS By Leon McKusick & Terry Tafoya

  5. 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

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

  7. 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

  8. Emotional Arousal • Altered states of consciousness – essential part of the healing transformation Lakota Sweat Lodge Cards

  9. Emotional Arousal • Drumming, hymns or power songs become anchors or cues

  10. Self Mastery • Promoting an increased sense of personal mastery in response to illness Sacred Path Cards

  11. Self Mastery • Skill do not have to directly act upon the disease

  12. Personal Qualities of the Healer • Research - important predictor of success with clients • Genuineness, warmth, & empathy • Varies from culture to culture Medicine Woman – SS Boulet

  13. Personal Qualities of the Healer • Quickest way of disrupting client’s perception of provider is by violating the Secondary Worldview

  14. Cross Cultural Elements of Healing • Shared to assist providers in reframing and recontextualizing approaches to illness and its treatment Creatrix Woman – SS Boulet

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