Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine by Lorin A. Cartwright
A textbook for athletic training, fitness, rehabilitation, and health care courses. A reference for professionals in those fields.
Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine
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Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine provides comprehensive information regarding the cultural attitudes, beliefs, and expectations that health care professionals may encounter in working with athletes and how to modify their professional behavior accordingly.
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[This] is a pioneering textbook in sports medicine that should spur much-needed conversation and advance learning.
--Doody's Book Review
About Lorin A. Cartwright
Lorin A. Cartwright, MS, ATC, is assistant principal and athletic director at Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a teacher and the school's head athletic trainer for more than 15 years, she has extensive experience with all aspects of instruction of student athletic trainers. She was an adjunct professor in athletic training at the University of Michigan for three years. Cartwright earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Grand Valley State College and a master's degree in education from the University of Michigan.
Cartwright is the author of three books, including the popular Preparing for the Athletic Trainers' Certification Exam, and was the first woman and first high school athletic trainer to serve as the president of the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association. She served as the investigative chair on the Ethics Committee for the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) from 1998 to 2004 and was also an active member of NATA's National Membership Committee and the National Review Committee for Misconduct from 1988 through 1992. Highly regarded in her field, she was the recipient of the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association Outstanding Educator Award in 2010, the Athletic Trainer Award from the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association in 2002, the Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award from the Michigan Athletic Trainers' Society in 1999, and the Distinguished Service Award from the National Athletic Trainers' Association in 1998.
Her travels have taken her to Alaska, Italy, Nova Scotia, Sweden, Finland, and the Caribbean. Cartwright has been the athletic trainer for the amateur and semipro summer basketball league and the Michigan men's basketball all-star team, and she worked at the Olympic Trials for wrestling.
Cartwright resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she enjoys woodworking, creating stained glass, and gardening in her free time.
Rene Revis Shingles, PhD, ATC, is director and associate professor in the department of physical education and sport at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant. She received her doctorate from Michigan State University. Her doctoral studies in sport sociology and program design and evaluation provide the theoretical framework for her continued research in cultural competence. Revis Shingles has presented extensively on cultural competence and diversity and has over 20 years of experience in teaching at the collegiate level.
Revis Shingles is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association's (NATA) Ethnic Diversity Advisory Council, serving as chair from 1995 until 2000. She also served on the NATA Education Council Executive Committee from 2004 through 2009. In addition to her athletic training experience, her work with these committees provided firsthand knowledge of diversity and educational issues in athletic training. In 2010, she received the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association Outstanding Educator Award and the NATA's Most Distinguished Athletic Trainer Award.
As an athletic trainer and researcher, she has traveled to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Mexico, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and throughout the Caribbean. Revis Shingles also served as an athletic trainer for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
She and her husband, Stan, reside in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, where she enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, and traveling.
Table of Contents
Part I. Exploring Cultural Competence
Chapter 1. Defining Cultural Competence
What Is Cultural Competence?
Why Is Cultural Competence Important?
Theories and Models of Cultural Competence
Process of Cultural Competence
Terminology and Language
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 2. Cultural Beliefs and Practices
Culture-Bound Syndromes
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 3. Demographics and Health Disparities
Changing Demographics
Relationship Between Demographics and Health Disparities
Reducing Health Disparities
Summary
Learning Aids
Part II. Cultural Awareness
Chapter 4. Understanding Difference
Unpacking the Luggage
Repacking the Luggage
Intersection of Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 5. Understanding Self
Cultural Awareness and Self-Assessment
Everyone Has Culture
Generalizations, Stereotypes, and Prejudices
Advantages, Disadvantages, and Privileges
Summary
Learning Aids
Part III. Cultural Knowledge
Chapter 6. Native American
American Indian
Native Alaskan
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 7. Asian American and Pacific Islander American
Chinese
Filipino
Vietnamese
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 8. Black
African American
Sub-Saharan African
Haitian
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 9. Latino
Mexican
Puerto Rican
Cuban
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 10. White European
German
Irish
English
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 11. Middle Eastern
Arab-Collective (Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian)
Iranian
Summary
Learning Aids
Part IV. Cultural Skill and Cultural Encounters
Chapter 12. Eliciting Information
A Revised Cultural Formulation and the Explanatory Models Approach
Other Models for Eliciting Information
Eliciting Information Through Use of an Interpreter
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 13. Culturally Based Physical Assessment
Taking an Oral History
Inspecting and Observing Physical Signs
Palpating
Summary
Learning Aids
Chapter 14. Working in a Culturally Competent Health Care Organization
Cultural Desire in the Health Care Organization
Cultural Awareness in the Health Care Organization
Cultural Knowledge in the Health Care Organization
Cultural Skill in the Health Care Organization
Cultural Encounters in the Health Care Organization
Summary
Learning Aids
Additional information
CIN0736072284G
9780736072281
0736072284
Cultural Competence in Sports Medicine by Lorin A. Cartwright
Used - Good
Paperback
Human Kinetics Publishers
2010-09-01
336
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