Teaching Cultural Competence

   

⊛Measuring Intelligence

   

Diverse Populations in the United States

⊛ Sources of Diversity

   

Cultural Competence4-stages

⊛ Programs have grown out of the need to improve COMMUNICATION and prevent malfunction in multicultural work groups of various types, including health care

⊛  Cultural Knowledge: ● Familiarization with selected cultural characteristics,

history, values, belief systems, and behaviors of the members of another ethnic group (Adams, 1995).

⊛ Cultural Awareness ● Developing sensitivity and understanding of another

ethnic group.  This usually involves internal changes in terms of attitudes and values.  Awareness and sensitivity also refer to the qualities of openness and flexibility that people develop in relation to others.  Cultural awareness must be supplemented with cultural knowledge (Adams, 1995).

Definitions from: http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_howdifferent.htm

   

Cultural Competence

⊛ Cultural Sensitivity ● Knowing that cultural differences as well as similarities

exist, without assigning values, i.e., better or worse, right or wrong, to those cultural differences (National Maternal and Child Health Center on Cultural Competency, 1997).

⊛  Cultural competence  = ACTION● Cultural competency emphasizes the idea of effectively

operating in different cultural contexts.  Knowledge, sensitivity, and awareness do not include this concept.    "This is beyond awareness or sensitivity," says Marva Benjamin of the Georgetown Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health. 

http://cecp.air.org/cultural/Q_howdifferent.htm

   

More than language. . .

⊛ Ethnicity: a shared sense of identity that includes a set of cultural meanings based on national origin, religion, language etc., may include race)

● Word comes from Greek “Ethnos” = people.● (Nagel, p. 2, M&M) notes that ethnicity is based on

• Language• Religion• Culture• Appearance• Ancestry • Regionality

   

More than language. . .

⊛ Ethnicity: shared common orientation toward the world● Sense of identification with one another● Identification by outsiders as belonging to a distinctive culture ● Often incorporates social, religious, linguistic, dietary and other

variables to identify individuals and populations ● Share common ancestry and cultural traditions● Shared values and norms ● Ethnic boundaries and dynamic and imprecise

⊛ Are “Southerners” an ethnic group?