ANAM genogram: historical perspectives, description, and current endeavors.

Cultural Genogram: A Tool for Teaching and Practice

Cultural issues affect patients’, families’, and providers’ perspectives on health, illness, and disease, thus a provider’s sensitivity and awareness to cultural issues can influence the quality and outcome of the patient and family encounter. As the population of the United States becomes more culturally diverse, health care professionals render care to patients whose cultural beliefs, values,...

Methodology of Description in Shaykh al – Ishraq

  As an ontologist philosopher Shaykh al – Isharq believes in a heirarchegal being on the basis of which presents his classification of various descriptions. These descriptions are various both in terms of longitudinal and latitudinal. That is, for instance though his intative descriptions are at the latitude of his logical analytic descriptions, possesses itself a longitudinal order successiv...

Down Syndrome: Current Status, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Down syndrome (DS) is a birth defect with huge medical and social costs, caused by trisomy of whole or part of chromosome 21. It is the most prevalent genetic disease worldwide and the common genetic cause of intellectual disabilities appearing in about 1 in 400-1500 newborns. Although the syndrome had been described thousands of years before, it was named after John Langdon Down who described ...

Doing a Cultural Genogram in Supervision

The authors take the genogram, a classic supervision method used to address the self-of-the-therapist, and tweak it by highlighting the cultural influences on supervisees. (See Chapter 10 in the accompanying book for the initial development and purposes of the genogram and Chapter 3 for ways it is now used to assess cultural equity.) After illustrating the value of the cultural genogram for sup...

Description of the human races: A historical perspective