Cultural Sensitivity in
Social and Health Care

What a great book, highly recommended to anyone wanting to understand cultures, I thought I knew a lot about culture, but each page I kept thinking " I didn't know that "a must for anyone in the Social & Health Care sector

I have a number of your books and this week purchased 3 additional books one of them was cultural sensitivity in health and social care. This book has been extremley enlightening and has enabled me to understand the reasons behind the rituals and festivals within different cultures and religions. I have always been aware of these events and have understood reasons behind these events but you have gone back further in time and I have found this invaluable. I am a tutor/assessor of NVQ's at all levels and teach and assess staff who work in delivering care to ethnic minorities and these staff are also from the same backgrounds. I have not only benefitted from learning from your book about the service users beliefs and preferences but also the importance of why providing staff from the same backgrounds has such an impact on the care provided. As we are aware it has always been good practice to culturally match staff and service users but due to the increase of the later years, of more people accessing services from differing backgrounds I feel pleased that we are providing staff to meet the needs but I feel that this book also gives insight to managers of staff who are from different cultural backgrounds and they should realise that the staff who work for them providing care and support to individuals have the same rights, beliefs and preferences sometimes as the service users. I have passed this title on to managers of these services as I am hoping that should they read your book they will have a better understanding of not only their service users needs but also their staff needs when coming from differing backgrounds. another great book.