Medical Services - Understanding Deaf Culture

VIDEO: Medical Services - Understanding Deaf Culture.



Participants will learn how to provide culturally sensitive and competent mental health services to members of the Deaf community through gaining a better understanding of the culture and its specific needs



Participants will also gain a better understanding of sign language and how this can affect the process of communication in mental health treatment.



Participants will learn how Americans with Disabilities Act applies to working with Deaf individuals in mental health settings as well as how to work more effectively with interpreter in these settings.

Objectives: The cultural aspects of the Deaf community that are necessary to understand in order to effectively provide mental health counseling and to make proper diagnoses, Information regarding commonly held myths about the Deaf community, How ADA applies to this population, How to effectively communicate in the therapeutic process using a sign language interpreters,



Elijah Buchholz, LPC, is the Director of Deaf Services for the Missouri Department of Mental Health. For the past six years, Buchholz has provided mental health and substance abuse services to the Deaf community. He has conducted numerous trainings for both mental health clinicians and interpreters across Missouri and Kansas.



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New Hampshire Hospital Settles With Deaf Woman

VIDEO: New Hampshire hospital settles with Deaf woman. Monadnock Community Hospital of Peterborough has agreed to a settlement over allegations that it failed to provide appropriate aid and services under the American Disabilities Act.



PETERBOROUGH - The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that Monadnock Community Hospital has agreed to a $5,000 settlement with a Deaf woman who received medical care at the hospital in 2010, according to a statement from justice department officials.



The woman, Amy Dauphinais, communicates primarily through sign language, and alleges hospital officials failed to provide her with auxiliary aids during her stay there, which resulted in her being unable to communicate with hospital personnel, and instead relied on her minor daughter to interpret for her, according to the statement.

Monadnock Community Hospital.

Although the hospital agreed to pay Dauphinais $5,000, it did so without admitting liability in the incident, justice department officials said.



In a statement, hospital officials said there was "a strong difference of opinion on the facts of the patient visit that was the basis of the claim," and that "there was never any question of any adverse effect on the quality of care provided to any patient and MCH cooperated throughout the case. ...READ MORE: http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/local-hospital-settles-with-deaf-woman/article_96c3aaa8-af8f-5ddc-91eb-15a86a64508c.html