Cultivate a healing relationship

Marcus is a 15 year old boy who has frequent run-ins with the law. He lives with his mother and grandmother in a very run down part of the city that is known for drugs, violence, and prostitution. The football coach at his high school has asked him to try out for the team. He is at the clinic for the physical examination required before he can try out. You find out, through looking at his file, that his brother was recently killed in a gang related shooting and his father is in jail.

Question 1: Describe how you would cultivate a healing relationship with the patient and/or family, integrating information from the assigned and selected supplemental readings regarding culture care of African American patients. Include a description of how you would ask about and integrate traditional health beliefs and/or use of complementary medicine into your own treatment plan.