Culturally Competent Compassion: A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: My 25-year journey of discovering cultural competence and compassion -- Introduction -- What you will find in this book -- References -- 2 Philosophical roots of compassion -- Introduction -- Confucius - 551-479 BCE - Chinese teacher, editor, politician and philosopher -- Aristotle (384-322 BCE) - Greek philosopher -- David Hume (1711-1776) - Scottish philosopher, historian, economist and essayist -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) - German philosopher -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1990) - German philosopher, cultural critic and poet -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869-1948 - Pre-eminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India -- Concluding remarks -- References -- 3 Compassion and religious explanations -- Introduction -- Buddhism -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Judaism -- Christianity -- Concluding remarks -- References -- 4 Health and illness in multicultural societies -- Introduction -- Personal values -- Health and illness -- Cultural identity -- Constructing 'otherness' -- Socio-cultural determinants of health -- Cultural competence -- The case of Mrs Hassan -- The PTT model of cultural competence -- (a) Cultural awareness -- (b) Cultural knowledge -- (c) Cultural sensitivity -- (d) Cultural competence -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- 5 The Papadopoulos model of culturally competent compassion -- Introduction -- My journey to culturally competent and compassionate nursing education -- A model for culturally competent and compassionate praxis -- The four constructs of the Papadopoulos model for developing culturally competent compassion in healthcare -- (a) Cultural awareness and compassion -- (b) Cultural knowledge and compassion