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There were a number of different delivery systems models in place and
which attempted to effect positive care for Lia Lee and her family in Anne
Fadiman’s The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
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However, it is fairly evident that the
model that was used most in this work of literature was the medical model
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The basis for this model is that the practitioner or
medical professional treating a patient analyzes the patients symptoms, issues a
diagnosis, treatment (typically based on medication) and hopefully effects a cure
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It is worth mentioning that this resistance was both unintentional
and intentional
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Additionally, the medical facility that the pair worked at
could not afford to hire translators
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The Lees did not understand many of the specifications for administering the
medication for Lia, and fostered an innate distrust of Westerners and
Westernized medicine in general
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For the most part, Lia’s parents utilized the human services model system
of help
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There is a great deal of
emphasis placed on the environment, as well as on the need for balance within
and without the individual
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Therefore, their primary means of treatment was to deal with Lia’s soul in this
ethereal sort of way by utilizing conventional practices and rituals that were
endemic to Laos
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Still, the help they administered considered Lia’s problem in a holistic way
which was in accordance with the surrounding environment
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Many of the practices that they
employed might be considered by westerners as superstition
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They eventually changed her name as well, believing that doing so would
somehow influence or shift her identity
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If I was the human services professional that was assigned to work with
the Lees instead of Jeanine Hilt, I would have to explain some very basic
information to them
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Certainly there are some non-profits or other
sort of assistive organizations that could procure the services of a translator
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Still, in my initial encounter
with these people (which would be accompanied by a translator), I would convey
the fact that I was cognizant of the fact that there are tremendous cultural
differences between the family and their Westernized surroundings, and that I
respected the family’s culture and its traditions pertaining to medicine and to life
in general
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I would stress the severity of

this condition
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In doing so, I would reinforce the idea
that neither the family nor Lia had to suffer
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Doing both would not be an option
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Taking this approach would manifest my own core values related to
employment as a human services worker
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These two values are the motivation behind my prefacing
the aforementioned conversation with the Lee’s by telling them how much I value
their own heritage—regardless of the fact that it is at variance with Westernized
culture
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Additionally, there is part of my own cultural background that is
at variance with that of conventional Westernized culture
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Another core value that I have is patience
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I would certainly give them a fair amount of time to make up their mind about

how they chose to treat their daughter
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I would also make an attempt to learn some
rudimentary words in the native tongue of the Lees
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Lastly, I would
emphasize to the family that myself and the other health services available to
them are there to help them
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