RT Journal
A1 Campbell KA
T1 Child abuse and culture: Working with diverse families
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2006
FD March 1
VO 160
IS 3
SP 325
OP 325
DO 10.1001/archpedi.160.3.325
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.160.3.325
AB 
After finishing Lisa Aronson Fontes' Child Abuse and Culture: Working With Diverse Families, I found myself rereading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down,1 Anne Fadiman's story of a Hmong family and the medical, social, and legal systems of central California caring for Lia, a young girl with a severe seizure disorder. The book alternates the perspective of Lia's well-meaning American pediatricians with the perspective of her well-meaning immigrant parents, pulling the reader along the tumbling downhill course of 1 child caught between 2 cultures. In the end, Lia does poorly, her parents are grieving, and her pediatricians are saddened and frustrated by the outcome.