Short-term intercultural psychotherapy: ethnographic inquiry.

This article examines the challenges specific to short-term intercultural treatments and recently developed approaches to intercultural treatments based on notions of cultural knowledge and cultural competence. The article introduces alternative approaches to short-term intercultural treatments based on ethnographic inquiry adapted for clinical practice. Such approaches allow clinicians conducting short-term intercultural treatments to foreground clients' indigenous conceptions of selfhood, mind, relationship, and emotional disturbance, and thus to more fully grasp their internal, interpersonal, and external worlds.

Nursing care of patients receiving Campath.

Monoclonal antibodies are focused therapies with unique infusion-related complications. Campath (alemtuzumab, Berlex Laboratories, Richmond, CA) is indicated for the treatment of refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia and has a complicated administration schedule, severe infusion-related toxicity, and profound immunosuppressive capability. Ambulatory cancer care is challenging simply because of the complex nature of the disease.