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Handouts to Promote the Medical Home Concept
    

The following four handouts promote the concept of a medical home and encourage parents to appropriately utilize their child’s medical home.  They are yours to use as you see fit.  Feel free to customize them.

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    Active Listening

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    A classic interpersonal strategy for helping patients at a moment of distress -- when they might mostly need, and you might offer, the opportunity to be heard.
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    BELIEF Instrument

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    A history-taking method for eliciting and understanding your patient's (or their family's) health beliefs
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    Harvard Culturally Competent Care Primer

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    This is a brief guide that emphasizes a patient-based approach to working with patients from various cultural groups. It can be used with any patient, and certainly complements other kinds of resources that provide you with general information about "typical" cultural groups and their common values, beliefs and behavior patterns. Developed by Harvard Medical School's Culturally Competent Care Education Committee. http://medweb.med.harvard.edu/cccec/teaching/primer/index.htm
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    Need for Cultural Competence.htm

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