title: Culture-centered counseling skills as a preventive strategy for college health services.
abstract: All learning occurs in a cultural context. Successful counseling can be achieved by training healthcare providers to interpret behaviors in their cultural context. The author describes a culture-centered approach, using a cultural grid that matches same/different behaviors with same/different expectations. Clients with shared positive expectations may display dissonant and apparently negative behaviors. Culturally accurate knowledge and culturally appropriate skills provide a three-level developmental sequence for more accurate and more appropriate healthcare guidance in such multicultural settings as those met on the college campus.
authors.affiliation: Syracuse University, New York, USA.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Pedersen
mesh_terms: D003144:Communication Barriers; D003469:Culture; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013333:Student Health Services