Folk-Healing Among Mexican-American Families as a Consideration in the Delivery of Child Welfare and Child Health Care Services

• NCJ Number: 129160
• Journal: Child Welfare Volume: 70 Issue: 2 Dated: (March/April 1991) Pages: 157-167
• Author(s): E R Krajewski-Jaime
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 11 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Survey (Cross-Cultural)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

If practitioners in cross-cultural services do not understand traditional health beliefs and practices and find ways to incorporate a compatible approach to them in their work, their clients and patients will go their own ways, sometimes with dire results.

Abstract

Practices among Mexican-American families are described. (Publisher abstract)