BACKGROUND Training health professionals in culturally sensitive medical interviewing has been widely promoted as a strategy for improving intercultural communication and for helping clinicians to consider patients' social and cultural contexts and improve patient outcomes. Clinical ethnography encourages clinicians to explore the patient's explanatory model of illness, recourse to traditional ...

Few studies examine relationships between intercultural strategies and adaptation among adolescents using a person-oriented approach. Framed from an intercultural psychology perspective, this study used such an approach in order to examine the influence of intercultural profiles, patterns of relationships among variables related to intercultural strategies, on the adaptation of adolescents of b...

Globalisation has led to increasing diversity worldwide. The rapid rise in the number of international migrants over the last 15 years has been unprecedented and currently accounts for more than 10% of the European and 16% of the Norwegian populations. Most countries in Europe attempt to provide equitable health care services to their citizens regardless of their ethnicity, religion, country of...

Introduction Collaboration in design has become a geographically and culturally dispersed activity. Increasingly, design educators see the need to prepare young designers for an international market by providing students with skills not only for design, but also for intercultural communication and distributed collaboration research into computer-supported, intercultural collaborative design lea...

Introduction The Council of Europe's role in conflict prevention and crisis management is defined in its statute, adopted by the founding European governments in 1949, just after the Second World War. The Organisation's contribution targets a structural prevention of conflict through its multilateral tools, with the collection and analysis of information on the root causes of conflicts before t...

In an era of globalization where international cooperation becomes a must in most fields, talents with vision and intercultural communication skills are great need. response to the demand this market, colleges pay attention their cultivation students’ awareness competence. This paper explores possible strategies that can be applied college English teaching learning meet

in today’s multiculturally interconnected world, cultural understanding is the key to communication and a buffer to communication breakdown. that is, the objectives of language learning cannot be viewed as a mainly linguistic task anymore; they should be directed towards achievement of intercultural communicative competence. therefore, the foreign language teachers should utilize and promote th...

This paper reports on a project that aims to develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate best practice in international on-line collaboration in remote laboratories, supported by a recently awarded Australian Learning and Teaching Council competitive grant. A remote laboratory (RL) is a computer-based learning environment that allows students from anywhere in the world to access and perform ex...

This paper is concerned with the analysis of the spoken language of teenagers, taken from a newly developed specialised corpus the British and Taiwanese Teenage Intercultural Communication Corpus (BATTICC). More specifically, the study employs a discourse analytical approach to examine vague language in an intercultural context among a group of British and Taiwanese adolescents, paying particul...

Background: Compassion is an important concept in healthcare, and in addition, care should be delivered in a culturally competent manner, taking into account the values, culture, and health beliefs of the individual. However, the training of nurses and other healthcare professionals may not adequately equip them to practice in a manner which is both compassionate and culturally competent. In th...