Question

What are some things that you can do to improve your cultural awareness and competency? Have you had any experiences that demonstrate how you used patient-centered techniques in the clinical setting?

Answer 1

• Very common method is to advise the teenager about the consequences of the bullying, so that you can give an awareness on cultural values,

  After school youth programmes can be conducted, with many programmes which represents the importance of cultural values, following programmes can be conducted

  Drama which can explain the values of the cultural values and script can be made by explaining colour and external appearance is not the exact humanity but humanity is about understanding the mind of others.

  He can conduct indoor games which includes all types of patients to play together. E.g. Act it out, icebreaking sessions

  Conduct mimes to explain about the values of all human beings and love of human beings to each other by adding a calamity like situation and people helping each other without considering the race and colour to the script.

  Mono acts to describe the situations like bullying

  Also, he can add how to handle/ tackle such situations in drama.

  Video recording of the above activities he can use for reaching the same goal to many others.

  CLIENT CENTRED PRACTICE

  Patient/ client centred practice means giving importance to patient’s opinion by accepting suggestions of the patient

  Explaining all the plans of the treatment to patient, regarding what treatment? Why is this giving? How is it done? How you want me to do this?

  By asking such questions and sharing information and involving patient in to treatment, patient starts to show more interested and self-motivated in treatment.

  Activities can be done in the same way that patient want it to be done. This method can also help in rapport building between practitioner and client

  Eg: if you are planning to give some exercises and if patient is suggesting to play football, patients interest is to be followed, then only he will give his best.