Title: teaches sensitivity to cultural differences
Product review: The authors seek to educate the American reader in a certain amount of cultural sensitivity. You are assumed to be a social worker (or something of similar ilk), with clients or patients drawn from a typical American population. Nowadays, there are substantial minorities. With backgrounds in Latin America, Asia, or they might be from the Negro community.The different backgrounds can lead to difficulties between you and the client. The latter might have language barriers, and so be unfamiliar with your questions or theraputic advice. Plus, various standard diagnoses might have been derived from tests or experiments on white populations, and sometimes white male.En route, the book explains why the DSM 4 handbook is a big improvement over DSM 3. Version 4 has more inclusive guidelines on cultural differences. Makes you more aware of potential problems.
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