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Healthcare and social services providers are deemed culturally competent when they offer culturally appropriate care to the populations they serve. While a review of the literature highlights the limited effectiveness of cultural competence training, its value remains largely unchallenged and it is institutionally mandated as a means of decreasing health disparities and improving quality of care. A plethora of trainings are designed to expose providers to different cultures and expand their understanding of the beliefs, values and behavior thus, achieving competence. Although this intention is commendable, training providers in becoming competent in various cultures presents the risk of stereotyping, stigmatizing, and othering patients and can foster implicit racist attitudes and behaviors. Further, by disregarding intersectionality, cultural competence trainings tend to undermine provider recognition that patients inhabit multiple social statuses that potentially shape their beliefs, values and behavior. To address these risks, we propose training providers in cultural humility, that is, an orientation to care that is based on self-reflexivity, appreciation of patients' lay expertise, openness to sharing power with patients, and to continue learning from one's patients. We also briefly discuss our own cultural humility training. Training providers in cultural humility and abandoning the term cultural competence is a long-awaited paradigm shift that must be advanced.

Cultural competence is today a prominent concept and aspiration in all aspects of international social work. In this article, I argue that the common understanding of 'cultural competence' from the so-called essentialist perspective is inadequate, and even risky, when working in an international context. Drawing on examples, I suggest that a more constructive and reflective view of cultural competence be adopted in order to meet the challenges of international social work in the contemporary world, and to better equip ourselves as ethical and anti-oppressive practitioners and educators.

To meet the care needs of today's diverse patient community, healthcare professionals must learn to care in environments comprising different worldviews, communication styles and expectations. To meet this challenge, it is essential that they operate from a solid foundation of knowledge, based on high standards for cultural competence in nursing practice. Cultural Competence in Caring for Muslim Patients is designed for nurses and allied healthcare professionals. It offers a deeper insight into ways in which the Islamic faith is intertwined with patient care, and explores approaches with which to effectively address the varying healthcare requirements of a growing and diverse Muslim community. Following a clear and accessible format, the book discusses key issues including: - The identity and religious beliefs of Muslims - The ethical dimension in caring - Understanding the Muslim family system - Health considerations during fasting and pilgrimage (Hajj) What's more, case studies, activities and discussion questions throughout actively support learning and reflective practices. This insightful guide will prove a valuable asset for any nurse or healthcare professional looking to develop their understanding of how to deliver culturally compassionate and congruent care

Disability as Diversity: Developing Cultural Competence is the first book to comprehensively address disability as diversity and provide a guide for developing cultural competence. The text goes beyond disability models, and opens a discourse on concepts such as disability identity development and culture, and culturally appropriate language, assessment, and intervention. Readers will gain an appreciation of the role of cultural competence on health disparities, health promotion, and disease prevention for disability across the lifespan. This volume is designed to equip professionals with heightened awareness, knowledge, and skills to enhance the provision of culturally competent care to disabled people.

Cross-cultural competence has become a byword in social work. In a postmodern world in which culture is seen as individually and socially constructed, evolving, emergent, and occurring in language (Laird, 1998), becoming "culturally competent" is a challenging prospect. How do we become competent at something that is continually changing and how do we develop a focus that includes ourselves as having differences, beliefs, and biases that are inevitably active. After considering this and several other contemporary perspectives on cultural competence, the author questions the notion that one can become competent at the culture of another. The author proposes instead a model based on acceptance of one's lack of competence in cross-cultural matters.

CULTURAL COMPETENCE ELEMENTS, DEVELOPMENTS AND EMERGING TRENDS -- CULTURAL COMPETENCE ELEMENTS, DEVELOPMENTS AND EMERGING TRENDS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CULTURAL COMPETENCE PREPARATION: PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR NEEDS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE -- Culturally Responsive Teacher Qualities -- CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK -- METHOD -- Participants -- Analysis -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Program-Level Considerations -- University Classroom Strategies

Navigating Power: Cross-Cultural Competence in Navajoland by Gelaye Debebe uses data of an inter-organizational relationship between a Navajo and Anglo organization to show how concerns about political inequality trump cultural differences. Debebe examines how interactions among individuals representing culturally dissimilar and politically unequal groups impact task coordination in organizational settings. While past research has emphasized how cultural differences affect the course of interactions, this book focuses on the impact of

Introduction: Working with Respect -- Chapter 1: The benefits of On Country Experiences at the tertiary level -- Chapter 2: Politics, and the Self -- Chapter 3: Curriculum to scaffold the students' cultural competence journey: whole of program assessment in allied health -- Chapter 4: Doing what is right: Behavioural change in service delivery at the higher end of cultural competence. A psycho-socio-cultural model for undergraduate and postgraduate health care professionals -- Chapter 5: Course and Subject Design Facilitating Indigenous Cultural Competence -- Chapter 6: Pushback and Progress- A Culturally Competent Law Degree -- Chapter 7: Reconciliation in Teacher Education -- Chapter 8: Grounding the teaching of anatomy and physiology in Indigenous pedagogy -- Chapter 9: The biases we bring: "Debiasing" higher education curriculum through the dynamics of implicit and unconscious bias -- Chapter 9: The biases we bring: "Debiasing" higher education curriculum through the dynamics of implicit and unconscious bias -- Chapter 11: Exploration of identity, relationships, learning, wisdom with cultural competence -- Chapter 12: Identity and success for Aboriginal students in higher education -- Chapter 13: The place of individual spirituality in the pedagogy of discomfort and resistance -- Chapter 14: The importance of cultural competence in sport-related higher education courses at CSU -- Chapter 15: Exploring the notion of cultural competence in regards to health and Physical Education and AITSL standards -- Chapter 16: Nursing and Cultural Competence -- Chapter 17: Searching for the middle ground of Indigenous and Western science -- Chapter 18: Facilitating critical reflexivity in undergraduate psychology -- Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Indigenous places as Learning Spaces: Fostering initial teacher education students' cultural competence using Yindyamaldhuray Yalbilinya framework.

The purpose of this article is to offer a useful approach for improving cultural competence among public administrators by examining differences in public service value congruence across racial lines. Instruments that assess the degree of fit between the values of citizens and public administrators may be helpful, as one tool among an array of tools, for improving the cultural competence of public administrators. Along these lines, this article reports the results of a study that utilized an original survey instrument to measure differences across racial lines in public service value congruence between citizens and police officers, its effects on citizen perceptions of police-community relations, and the implications that these differences have for the development of cultural competence.

Cultural competence in healthcare has been defined in many ways; however, it generally refers to knowledge of social and cultural factors that influence illness and related behaviour, and actions taken to provide the best of quality care considering each patient's background [...]