Building Confianza: Empowering Latinos/As Through Transcultural Health Care Communication (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780814258095)

Dalia Maga a's Building Confianza demonstrates that effective doctor-patient communication in Spanish requires that practitioners not only have knowledge of Spanish but also have transcultural knowledge of Latino/a values and language use. Using linguistic analysis to study real-time doctor-patient interactions, Maga a probes the role of interpersonal language and transcultural competency in improving patient-centered health care with Spanish-speaking Latino/as, highlighting successful examples of how Latino/a cultural constructs of confianza (trust), familismo (family-orientation), personalismo (friendliness), respeto (respect), and simpat a (kindness) can be deployed in medical interactions. She proposes that transcultural interactions entail knowing patients' cultural values and being mindful about creating an interpersonal connection with patients through small talk, humor, self-disclosure, politeness, and informal language, including language switching and culturally appropriate use of colloquialisms. By explicitly articulating discourse strategies doctors can use in communicating with Spanish-speaking patients, Building Confianza will aid both students and providers in connecting to communities of Spanish speakers in health care contexts and advancing transcultural competence.

Author: Dalia Maga
ISBN-10: 0814258093
ISBN-13: 9780814258095
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/2021
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.60d