Caring for the Low German Mennonites
Caring for the Low German Mennonites

Author: Judith Kulig

Publisher: Purich Books

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 077488018X

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What happens when health care providers meet patients whose religious views contrast with mainstream health practices? Caring for the Low German Mennonites focuses on a unique religious group to examine the ways in which beliefs and practices influence members’ interactions with the health care system. Drawing on nearly twenty years of research, Judith Kulig elucidates a process for acknowledging and respectfully inquiring about a patient’s beliefs, and taking them into account in the planning of care and implementation of treatment. This book includes: an overview of what “cultural competence” means and how it can help health care practitioners provide effective care for their patients a meticulous account of the influence of religion on the Low German Mennonites’ conceptions of health and illness, women’s health, death and dying, and mental health consideration of the overlaps and differences between the norms of the Low German Mennonite community and those of the health care system. Caring for the Low German Mennonites serves as a rich and detailed example of working respectfully and effectively with a minority religious group. Kulig shows that trust and understanding are key to providing appropriate and equitable health care.

Caring for the Low German Mennonites
Caring for the Low German Mennonites

Author: Judith Celene Kulig

Publisher: Purich Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780774880190

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A brief history of the Low German Mennonites -- Health and illness -- Women's health -- Death and dying -- Mental health

Handbook for Culturally Competent Care
Handbook for Culturally Competent Care

Author: Larry D. Purnell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-29

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 3030219461

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This concise, easy-to-read book tackles the potentially awkward subject of culture in a direct, non-intimidating style. It prepares all health professionals in any clinical setting to conduct thorough assessments of individual from culturally specific population groups, making it especially valuable in today's team-oriented healthcare environment. The book is suitable for healthcare workers in all fields, particularly nurses who interact with the patients 24 hours a day, every day of the week. Based on the Purnell Model for Cultural Competence, it explores 26 different cultures and the issues that healthcare professionals need to be sensitive to. For each group, the book includes an overview of heritage, communication styles, family roles and organization, workforce issues, biocultural ecology, high-risk health behaviors, nutrition, pregnancy and child bearing, death rituals, spirituality, healthcare practices, and the views of healthcare providers. It also discusses the variant characteristics of culture that determine the diversity of values, beliefs, and practices in an individual's cultural heritage in order to help prevent stereotyping. These characteristics include age, generation, nationality, race, color, gender, religion, educational status, socioeconomic status, occupation, military status, political beliefs, urban versus rural residence, enclave identity, marital status, parental status, physical characteristics, sexual orientation, gender issues, health literacy, and reasons for migration. Each chapter offers specific instructions, guidelines, tips, intervention strategies, and approaches specific to a particular cultural population.

Out of Place
Out of Place

Author: Luann Good Gingrich

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1487510985

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The flow of migrants from south to north and east to west carries with it growing concerns about the economic integration, political incorporation, and social inclusion of newcomers and their children. But what happens when a group of people deliberately excludes themselves from mainstream society? How can social policies, human services, and communities best understand and respond to them? In Out of Place, Luann Good Gingrich explores social inclusion and exclusion in relation to the approximately 60,000 Low German-speaking Mennonites who have migrated from traditionally self-sufficient and agrarian colonies in Latin America to rural areas of Canada. By examining the free-market principles that organize the human services industry the author exposes the inherent conflict that arises when this “market logic” is imposed on a group that does not embrace these ideals. The author’s innovative approach to social policy and human services which emphasizes the relationship between dominant and subordinate cultures, encourages us to find new ways to authentically engage with difference and bridge the gaps that divide us.

Mennonite Low German dictionary
Mennonite Low German dictionary

Author: Jack Thiessen

Publisher: Max Kade Institute

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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The "Mennonite Low German Dictionary is the most extensive reference work to date on the vital language of thousands of Mennonites in places as far flung as Russia, Canada, and Latin America. It provides a concise history and grammar of the language and more than twenty-five thousand entries--from "Aajdatjs (lizard) to "Resse'rieta (prankster) to "Zyreen (siren)--taken from everyday speech, popular sayings, and literature. This reference work offers a fascinating view of the history and present state of Mennonite Low German, which, unlike most minority and immigrant languages, continues to thrive and grow. Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Transnational Social Support
Transnational Social Support

Author: Adrienne Chambon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1136493913

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In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. This volume will be the first to systematically address transnational support research from a theoretical and empirical perspective, making the concept of transnationality part of the core knowledge structure of social work.

Singing Mennonite
Singing Mennonite

Author: Doreen Helen Klassen

Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 088755895X

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In this pioneering book, Doreen Helen Klassen explores a collection of Mennonite Low German songs and rhymes.

Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada
Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada

Author: Paul Bramadat

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0802095844

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In Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada, eleven scholars explore the complex relationships between religious and ethnic identity within the nine major Christian traditions in Canada.