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Debating Identity: Urban Indians In The Healthcare System, Erin J. Klahn
Debating Identity: Urban Indians In The Healthcare System, Erin J. Klahn
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
In recent years, the public health sector has recommended that healthcare practitioners become culturally competent in order to reduce health disparities in minority groups. It was reported later in the Surgeon General's Report (1999) on mental health, that culture shapes the healthcare experience for minority groups and in turn may influence the treatment course. Cultural competence models have been proposed in conjunction with the development of ethnic-specific mental health clinics, where practitioners and patients are ethnically similar, and programs are designed with the groups’ unique cultural needs in mind. This poses a particularly unique dilemma for urban Indians as their …
Bringing African Dance And Drumming To Rural Northern Colorado, Melissa Claeys
Bringing African Dance And Drumming To Rural Northern Colorado, Melissa Claeys
Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers
For my Final Creative Project, I set out to bring change to a rural Colorado school. I was to propose and pilot a unit in African Drumming. My eventual goal was to have this class offered for the fall of 2008 in the student class handbook and be able to teach this course. I began my process in the summer of 2007 engaging in conversations with my future colleagues asking for their support in this goal. We were able to come upon an agreement that I would be able to write and propose a new course with an accompanying curriculum …