TY - JOUR
T1 - Consultation with the filipino boarding home
T2 - An after-care facility in hawaii
AU - Yutiao, Mary
AU - Kinzie, J. David
PY - 1975/6
Y1 - 1975/6
N2 - This report describes a unique Hawaiian after-care facility, the Filipino operated boarding home, and the approaches useful in consultation with the operators. The majority of the boarding homes for psychiatric patients are operated by recent Filipino immigrants. This fact is explained by their current social position and also by cultural values—such as aiding others and an extended family system—which are present in the Philippines. In consultation with seventeen such boarding home operators, cultural beliefs and values played a great part in their approach to patients. These approaches created special problems and assets in their management of patients from other ethnic groups such as Japanese, Caucasian and Hawaiian. A problemoriented approach to consultation proved useful initially and set the stage for other forms of intervention. This included allowing the operator to ventilate her feelings about the patient; bridging the communication gap between operators and patients; dissipating the operators' stereotypic perception of patients; and educating the operators about mental illness. Our impressions and indirect evidence indicated that Filipino boarding home operators perform a useful service and, with consultation sensitive to their values, can become even more effective.
AB - This report describes a unique Hawaiian after-care facility, the Filipino operated boarding home, and the approaches useful in consultation with the operators. The majority of the boarding homes for psychiatric patients are operated by recent Filipino immigrants. This fact is explained by their current social position and also by cultural values—such as aiding others and an extended family system—which are present in the Philippines. In consultation with seventeen such boarding home operators, cultural beliefs and values played a great part in their approach to patients. These approaches created special problems and assets in their management of patients from other ethnic groups such as Japanese, Caucasian and Hawaiian. A problemoriented approach to consultation proved useful initially and set the stage for other forms of intervention. This included allowing the operator to ventilate her feelings about the patient; bridging the communication gap between operators and patients; dissipating the operators' stereotypic perception of patients; and educating the operators about mental illness. Our impressions and indirect evidence indicated that Filipino boarding home operators perform a useful service and, with consultation sensitive to their values, can become even more effective.
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U2 - 10.1177/002076407502100208
DO - 10.1177/002076407502100208
M3 - Article
C2 - 172465
AN - SCOPUS:0016814384
SN - 0020-7640
VL - 21
SP - 130
EP - 136
JO - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
JF - International Journal of Social Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -