Section Five: Applications in Clinical Service Delivery

We have been laying our groundwork of principles, models, standards, definitions, metaphors, requirements, and thought processes. Now it’s time to apply those pieces to your work in clinical service!

Section Five describes a crucial distinction between “multi-” and “cross-”, and then addresses four very different kinds of clinical situations: multi-cultural, cross-cultural, multi-linguistic, and cross-linguistic. They are all different, they are all important, they often co-occur, and they all apply to more clients than you might have assumed they would!