1st Edition

Culturally Competent Compassion A Guide for Healthcare Students and Practitioners

By Irena Papadopoulos Copyright 2018
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

Bringing together the crucially important topics of cultural competence and compassion for the first time, this book explores how to practise ‘culturally competent compassion’ in healthcare settings – that is, understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it using culturally appropriate and acceptable caring interventions. This text first discusses the philosophical... Read more

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Introduction: my 25-year journey of discovering cultural competence and compassion

Chapter 2 Philosophical roots of compassion

Chapter 3 Compassion and religious explanations

Chapter 4 Health and illness in multicultural societies

Chapter 5 The Papadopoulos model of culturally

competent compassion

Chapter 6 Learning and practicing culturally competent

compassion

Chapter 7 Culturally competent and compassionate

leadership

Chapter 8 Researching culturally competent compassion

Chapter 9 Measuring compassion

Chapter 10 Epilogue: from culturally competent and compassionate humans to culturally competent and compassionate robots

Biography

Irena Papadopoulos is Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing at Middlesex University, UK.

"presents both theory and application to practice in a meaningful contribution to the literature on culturally competent compassion…There is a robust discussion about the philosophical and religious roots associated with compassion and how it is defined and practiced globally. Papadopoulos presents her own model of culturally competent compassion, which includes three constructs: values (human rights), principles (intercultural education), and framework (cultural awareness, knowledge, sensitivity, and competence). Each construct is explored, and applications to practice are presented in care scenarios." – B. A. D'Anna, SUNY Delhi, Choice: recommended title