This response was constructed based on my experience as a language program coordinator and my expertise in second language (L2) reading development. Because transcultural competence, as defined in the MLA Report (2007), shares much of its underlying capacities with reading ability, in principle, reading instruction could play a significant role in fostering transcultural competence. In actualit...

The term 'transcultural psychiatry' has encompassed changing notions of race, culture and psychiatry and, as a result, it is a difficult concept to define. For a long time psychiatrists and social scientists have been commenting on how the psyches and psychiatric illnesses differ in non-White populations. However, transcultural psychiatry was not created as a distinct discipline until after Wor...

(*) Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg [email protected] (**) Cluster of Excellence «Asia and Europe in a Global Context», Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg, [email protected] (***) Institute of Egyptology, Universität Heidelberg [email protected]...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes have a major global impact through high disease prevalence, significant downstream pathophysiologic effects, and enormous financial liabilities. To mitigate this disease burden, interventions of proven effectiveness must be used. Evidence shows that nutrition therapy improves glycemic control and reduces the risks of diabetes and its complications. Accordin...

INTRODUCTION To look at the specificities of the work of a Transcultural Child Psychiatry Team developed to meet the need for specialized services for Montreal and Quebec's culturally diverse immigrant and refugee pediatric population. METHOD A Transcultural Child Psychiatry Team was started at McGill University in 1995. The clinic's development and method of service provision for its patient...

ABSTRACT Research conducted in the United States has found . that people exert more effort when they perfarm a task individually than when they do so in a group. This phenomenon has been labeled social loafing. To examine the transcultural generality of social ' loafing, 20 male anck2.0 female Chinese,school children in Taiwan were selected from grades 2, 3, 6, and/9. They were asked to shout a...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Non-treatment of diseases or clinical conditions has been considered to constitute omission of care in several countries. The aim of the present study was to develop a transcultural adaptation of the Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to the Right Treatment (START) to Brazilian Portuguese and to validate the tool's content. DESIGN AND SETTING Cultural adaptation and validat...

This study aims to analyze the relationship between nurses' knowledge and application of transcultural nursing in Inpatient Room Abdul Manap Hospital, Jambi City. research method is an observational analytic using a cross-sectional design. The results showed that 13 respondents who had good knowledge, 12 (92.3%) transcultural, 30 poor 22 (73.3%) transcultural. In conclusion, related therapeutic...