Year: 1998
Type: article
Abstract: This article relates the experience of the first Bedouin-Arab clinical social worker in Israel in dealing with a largely Bedouin-Arab clientele in the Negev. In the psychiatric and primary health care settings where he worked, efforts to apply Western techniques with which the patients were unfamiliar created barriers to understanding and treating their mental health problems. After much frustration, the author decided to learn about the Bedouin-Arabs ' own ways of dealing with mental health problems. The paper recommends that modern practitioners who work with traditional ethnic groups be more culturally sensitive and accept their clients ' utilization of traditional healing. Showing the overlap between traditional and modern healing, it urges that modern professionals incorporate knowledge of traditional diagnoses and healing approaches into their practice. by
Author: Alean Al‐Krenawi
Institution: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1500925826