How effective am I at working across cultural differences? Do others see me as culturally competent? One of the key frameworks of the Navigating Difference workshop, the Developmental Model of ...

Vernita Mayfield agreed to answer a few questions about her book, Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege. Vernita Mayfield, a ...

“The world felt larger when the internet was small,” writes Hal Conick, “Twenty years ago, 33 percent of internet users were in the U.S. while less than 1.5 percent of the world’s population was ...

Cultural competence has become a common buzzword among aspiring physicians. More medical schools are emphasizing cultural competence in their curricula and med school applicants often cite cultural ...

Given the increasing diversity of Canada, cultural competence is considered of paramount importance in practising mental health care effectively. The term cultural competence refers to cultural ...

Culture refers to the ideas, customs, and behaviors of a group of people or a society (1). It influences just about everything you do — the way you speak, the foods you eat, what you consider to be ...

Despite being a cherished ideal in psychotherapy for decades, the term “cultural competence” has become increasingly flawed. While largely well-intentioned, it has poorly accounted for the power ...

We used data from the nationally representative Commonwealth Fund 2001 Health Care Quality Survey of 6,722 adults living in the United States who reported their race as black/African American, Asian, ...