Cultural Competency
Practiced for over 2,500 years in China, where it originated, acupuncture is an important part of the holistic system of traditional Chinese medicine. Acupuncture was first introduced in Europe about 200 years ago by Jesuit priests who served as Catholic missionaries in the East. Most of its modem popularity in America and Europe followed the normalization of relations between the West and the Peoples Republic of China (Pfeifer, 1988). At first, acupuncture caused quite a stir among culturally-biased skeptics in the Western medical community, but over time it has come to be recognized as a legitimate medical technique that should be integrated into standard medical practice for a number of conditions.

According to traditional Chinese Medicine, health is achieved through the harmonious balance between the opposing forces of yin (spirit) and yang (blood) (Acupuncture, Medicomm). The attraction between them creates an energy known as qi (pronounced chee) and health is…...

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Cultural Competency Scenario: A Muslim, African Moroccan woman and a male, American clinical home health worker aide
Imagine this -- you are a male clinician in the home health care industry assisting in the at-home treating of an older African woman. The woman has recently come to this nation and needs assistance with bathing, meal preparation and other minor assistance performing ordinary acts of daily self-care. In her original nation of Morocco, this woman long faced government, social, and family-sponsored discrimination that rendered women unequal before the law and forbade such a close physical relationship between a man and a woman. (Human Rights atch, 2004) No matter how noble the clinician's intentions, he must accept that the woman has a profoundly different and ingrained view of the sexes than himself -- and it is not his ethical responsibility as a caregiver to overcome what he may perceive as prejudices, but to…...

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Burden M. (Nov 2001) "Culturally sensitive care: managing diabetes during Ramadan." British Journal of Community Nursing. 6(11): 581-5.

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2007). At the same institution referenced above, the high degree of "sameness" with which all students were treated precluded the concept that a student might be struggling for cultural reasons -- i.e. preconceived notions regarding the subject matter that differed from what was being taught, etc. This in essence led to blaming the victims of cultural incompetence -- or at least cultural blindness -- for problems that were largely inherent to the system and beyond the students' grasp to even perceive, let alone understand and articulate to authority figures.
There are many suggestions that could be made in order to help this institution -- and the many others that are presumably like it around the country -- move in the right direction, towards increased cultural competence and away from the ill-conceived notions of complete equality and essential similarity that amounts to cultural blindness. The most effective solution, however, is simple…...

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References

Kennedy, E.; Bronte-Tinkew, J. And Matthews, G. (2007). "Enhancing cultural competence in out-of-school time programs." Child trends: Research to results. Accessed 23 March 2010. http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2007_01_31_RB_CultureCompt.pdf

Olsen, L.; Bhattacharya, J. And Scahrf, A. (2006). "Cultural competency: What it is and why it matters." California Tomorrow, Lucille Packard foundation for children's health. Accessed 23 March 2010.  http://www.lpfch.org/informed/culturalcompetency.pdf 

Seattle Public Schools. (2009). "What is Cultural Competence?" Accessed 23 March 2010.  http://www.seattleschools.org/area/equityandrace/culturalCompetence.xml

Cultural Competency Health Professionals Canada
This paper discusses cultural competency for health professionals in Canada. Defining cultural competence for healthcare as respectful awareness of cultural differences, the importance of this perspective is discussed. Aspects of cultural competency, ranging from the purview of the healthcare insurance industry, to the perspective of the Canadian Nurses Association, are presented. Also, ani Srivastava's 'Guide to Clinical Cultural Competence' is used to guide the discussion. Also, articles from scholarly journals are explored for the analysis.

Defining and classifying Cultural Competency

According to the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH, 2015), cultural competency, as applied to healthcare, 'enables providers to deliver services that are respectful of and responsive to the health beliefs, practices and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse patients'. In another place it is defined as "a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together to enable a system, organization or professionals to work…...

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Barlow, K., Loppie, C., Jackson, R., Akan, M., McLean, L., & Reimer, G. (2010). Culturally Competent Service Provision Issues Experienced By Aboriginal People Living With HIV / AIDS. PMC, 155-180.

Beach, M.C., Price, E., Gary, T., Robison, K., Gozu, A., Palacio, A., . . . Cooper, L. (2011). Cultural Competency: A Systematic Review of Health Care Provider Educational Interventions. PMC.

Betancourt, J., Green, A., Carrillo, E., & Park, E. (2005). Cultural Competence and Health Care Disparities: Key Perspectives and Trends. Health Affairs. 499-505. Retrieved from  http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/2/499.full 

Birch, J., Ruttan, L., Muth, T., & Baydala, L. (2009). Culturally Competent Care for Aboriginal Women. Journal de la sante autochtone, 27-28.

Moreover, nurses who move to working behind the scenes in education, can adapt what they have learned practicing in the field in order to translate it into an academic context. The need to teach transcultural nursing practices in a modern academic context is clear. New nurses will need to learn from others' experiences in order to best present a culturally sensitive method of care for their patients. Thus, many within nursing education have begun designing strategies to introduce the diversity into the nursing practice as early as nursing school, instead of waiting for nurses to develop their own culturally sensitive methods based on their experience in the workplace. Thus, Andrews and Boyle quote "Over the years, we have explored ways to creatively and effectively teach our students how to apply transcultural concepts to practice with the goal of developing their knowledge and skill in providing culturally competent and culturally congruent…...

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Andrews, Margaret M. & Boyle, Joyceen S. (2002). Transcultural concepts in nursing care. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 13(178), 178-180.

Betancourt, Joseph R. (2002). Cultural competence in health care: Emerging frameworks and practical approaches. The Commonwealth Fund. Harvard Medical School.

Douglas, Marilyn K.; Pierce, Joan Uhl; Rosenkoetter, Marlene; Callister, Lynn Clark; Hattar-Pollara, Marianne; Lauderdale, Jana' Miller, June; Milstead, Jeri; Nardi, Deena A.; & Pacquiao. (2009). Standards of practice for culturally competent nursing care: A request for comments. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 20(3), 257-269.

Sagar, Priscilla. (2012). Transcultural Nursing Theory and Models: Application in Nursing Education, Practice, and Administration. 2012. Springer Publishing Company.

Peer Mentoring in a Low Income CommunityIntroductionAs a current intern at Cook Elementary in Auburn Gresham Illinois, I get to interact with you students who struggle with the basicsreading, writing and arithmetic. So far it has been a genuine pleasure to interact with these young minds as we work through the issues and overcome the obstacles to their learning. However, I would like to increase my cultural knowledge and skills in order to provide multi-culturally competent service provision. The population is poor and predominantly African American though there is a small percentage of Hispanic students as well. I am a peer mentor at the school through the Cities Project of DePaul University. The Cities Project (2020) is a non-profit, research-based mentorship program that aims to provide support for the Chicago Public School students and families. Working in a low income community provides one with a sense of the disadvantages and…...

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Cities Project. (2020). Who we are. Retrieved from  https://thecitiesproject.org/ 

Coggins, P., & Campbell, S. D. (2008). Using cultural competence to close the achievement gap. The Journal of Pan African Studies, 2(4), 44-59.

Comber, B., & Woods, A. (2016). Literacy teacher research in high-poverty schools: Why it matters. In Teacher education for high poverty schools (pp. 193-210). Springer, Cham.

Efficacy of Provider Cultural Competency Training for educing HIV Prevalence among African-American Adolescent Females
isky behavior is common among adolescents, some might even say expected, but the risks taken can sometimes lead to tragic, life-long consequences. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), for example, can cause cervical cancer or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The adolescent group most susceptible to HIV exposure in the United States is African-American females (reviewed by Aronowitz & Eche, 2013). Across all females between the ages of 13 and 19 in the U.S. African-Americans accounted for 70% of all new infections in 2006, even though only 14% of the American population is Black. More generally, a 2008 study revealed that nearly 50% of all African-American female teenagers were infected with at least one common STI.

Differences in risky behavior among racial and ethnic groups has been associated with other adverse outcomes, including substance abuse, exposure to violence, and mental health…...

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Aronowitz, T. & Eche, I. (2013). Parenting strategies African-American mothers employ to decrease sexual risk behaviors in their early adolescent daughters. Public Health Nursing, 30(4), 279-87.

Gonzalez-Guarda, R.M., McCabe, B.E., Florom-Smith, A., Cianelli, R., & Peragallo, N. (2011). Substance abuse, violence, HIV, and depression: An underlying syndemic factor among Latinas. Nursing Research, 60(3), 182-189.

Harris, M.S., Purnell, K., Fletcher, A., & Lindgren, K. (2013). Moving toward cultural competency: DREAMWork online summer program. Journal of Cultural Diversity, 20(3), 134-8.

Loftin, C., Hartin, V., Branson, M., & Reyes, H. (2013). Measures of cultural competence in nurses: An integrative review. Scientific World Journal, 2013, 1-10. Available from .

Cultural Competency: Challenges for the CounselorAny committed Christian in a largely secular society will find him or herself faced with challenges, when the need to be empathetic and accepting of the views and emotional needs of friends and families may seem to clash with deeply held beliefs. During such moments, I often say to myself, Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stoneat her (John 8:7, NIV). However, working as a counselor is likely to give rise to even more challenging situations and scenarios regarding my level of cultural comfort and tolerance. It is vitally important to strike a balance between an open-minded attitude regarding my clients beliefs while still drawing upon a coherent ethical counseling worldview.Limitations and StrengthsAs noted in Prior & Chatraw (2019), the desire of Christians to engage with culture often ends poorly, even with the best of intentions:…...

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Ej4.com. (2021). Official Website. Retrieved from:  https://www.ej4.com/ 

Miller, R., Hilsenroth, M. J., & Hewitt, P. L. (2017). Perfectionism and therapeutic alliance:  A review of the clinical research. Research in Psychotherapy (Milano), 20(1), 264.  Retrieved from:  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7451382/ 

Owen, J., DeBlaere, C., Davis, D. D., Hook, J. N. (2017). Cultural humility: Engaging diverse identities in therapy. United States: American Psychological Association.

Prior, K. S., Chatraw, J. (2019). Cultural engagement: A crash course in contemporary issues. United States: Zondervan Academic.

HIPAA Privacy Rule Considerations
Dealing with a diverse patient population will impact the right to patient privacy as mandated by the HIPAA Privacy Rule in a couple of distinct ways. Many patients might not necessarily understand their rights to privacy, or their other rights. Such a statement is particularly relevant when dealing with immigration populations. For instance, numerous members of these populations may not speak English very well. Additionally, depending on which ethnicity they are members of, it might be difficult to find a translator or someone that can speak their native language. As such, one of the potential barriers I might come across in a medical setting when dealing with a diverse patient population is simply attempting to communicate to its members the information that they need -- and are entitled to according to the HIPAA Privacy Act. Again, depending on which ethnicity or nationality a particular patient represents, simply…...

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Department of Health and Human Services. "HHS action plan to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities." 2011. Web. http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/npa/files/Plans/HHS/HHS_Plan_complete.pdfhttp://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/.

Department of Health and Human Services. "2012 National Healthcare Disparities Report.   2013. Web. http://archive.ahrq.gov/ .

Multicultural Competency
Cultural Competency and Group Leadership

Group leadership is important, in that a group needs to be cohesive. Without the right leadership there will be no cohesion, which can lead to the failing of the group (DeLucia-Waack, Kalodner, & iva, 2013). While leadership does not seem particularly difficult for many people, there are many different facets to leadership that have to be addressed. One of these facets is multicultural competency. This means that a good leader must be careful to understand each person in the group and his or her culture, in order to take that culture into account when it comes to making the group work well together (Yalom & Leszcz, 2005). The cohesion of any group is difficult enough without cultural issues, but the gaps can be bridged when there is a good leader available. Learning to address multicultural issues can be taught, but some of it is also…...

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DeLucia-Waack, J.L., Kalodner, C.R., & Riva, M.T. (2013). Handbook of group counseling and psychotherapy. NY: Sage Publications.

Yalom, I. & Leszcz, M. (2005). Theory and practice of group psychotherapy. (5th ed.). NY: Basic Books.

Cultural Competency ReassessmentMy cultural competency score has improved a bit, as I also feel like my understanding of cultural competency has deepened since Unit 1 began. I think the main factors that hindered my cultural competency in the past was the fact that I felt like I lived in a community where most people looked and thought like me. This kind of bubble or maybe even safe space existence probably limited my exposure to other cultures and made subconsciously me accept ideas and certain stereotypes without every really questioning them or even being aware of what I was doing. But now I feel like this course has shown me how interesting and authentic other cultures are and why it is worth understanding them.From the course, I learned three important things about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). The first lesson is that diverse teams create richer ideas (Yang et al., 2022).…...

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Keller, S. (2004). Friendship and belief. Philosophical Papers, 33(3), 329-351.

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Cultural Competency in Nursing
The basic knowledge in nursing or medical studies needs substantial facilitation in order to be effective and appropriate towards addressing the needs and preferences of the patients. Watson notes the need to integrate humanistic aspect into the career or nursing profession. He also believes on the need for the establishment of the caring relationship between the patients and nurses thus demonstration of unconditional acceptance of the patients in any condition. Nurses should integrate holistic and positive treatment with the aim of promoting health through knowledge and interventions thus elimination of interruptions during treatments or 'caring moments'. Modern patients have diverse problems and issues because of the cultural differences, races, and ethnicity thus the need to enhance the operations of the nurses. There is need to ensure that the nurses obtain cultural competencies with the aim of enhancing their ability to address diverse issues and problems faced by…...

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Anderson, N.L.R., Calvillo, E.R., & Fongwa, M.N. (2007). Community-based approaches to strengthen cultural competency in nursing education and practice. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 18(1), 49S-59S.

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Krentzman and Townsend (2008) indicates that multicultural competence means "having the beliefs, knowledge, and skills necessary to work effectively with individuals different from one's self; that cultural competence includes all forms of difference; and that issues of social justice cannot be overlooked" (p. 7). Although improved cultural competency is widely regarded as being an important element of high quality health care services, it is not a "magic bullet" for mitigating existing inequities in the provision of such care (Larson & Ott, 2010). Nevertheless, developing cross-cultural competencies is viewed by many health care providers as an essential first step in improving access and the quality of health care services in Australia today (Sharma & Phillion, 2011). Therefore, in this context, the term "multicultural competence" is used to describe the relationship between a counselor and a patient in cross-cultural settings (An introduction to cultural competency, 2012). The focus of cultural competence…...

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Global Leadership Global LeadershipIntroductionAny organizational success in the present globalized economy excessively relies on leadership. Leaders must deal with global economic realities (Mendenhall et al., 2013). Nonetheless, most leaders have not been educated, prepared, or trained to handle the current complex environment. Due to the increasingly global environment, leaders encounter several complicated challenges (Javidan et al., 2016). Any organization that plans to flourish within the global market has to enact global leadership development as part of its strategic plan.Some studies have referred to global leadership as an interdisciplinary study of critical aspects that future leaders in various categories of personal experience should obtain to properly familiarize themselves with globalizations geographical, physiological, anthropological, psychological, sociological, and geopolitical impacts (Mendenhall et al. 2013). Global leadership can also be referred to as the ability to effectively operate within the global environment while upholding respect for cultural diversity (Javidan et al., 2016). Usually, global…...

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We are more than welcome to assist any client who has trouble understanding anything. However, we do not offer to meet with clients whose first language is not English to decipher communications that they might not understand. Making this effort goes a long way toward promoting client health and well being.
We do have bilingual staff but Spanish is the only language besides English that is well-represented. It would be more helpful to hire people who have some command of other languages that our clients might speak. One of the areas I believe we do well in is sensitivity to diverse views of family and health. We allow extended members of the family to visit and consult with them too. I understand that people from different cultures grieve differently, too. Finally, I would be better off reading peer-reviewed journal articles as to the most current best practices that take cultural…...

Police equity refers to the concept of fairness and justice within law enforcement. It encompasses ensuring that police departments and officers treat all individuals fairly and without bias or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic. Police equity aims to promote equal treatment, rights, and opportunities for all members of society, regardless of their personal backgrounds or circumstances.

Achieving police equity requires regular evaluation and improvement of policing practices, policies, and procedures. This includes implementing unbiased policing strategies, focusing on community engagement and cultural competency training for officers, and addressing any systemic issues or biases that....

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The Role of Cultural Competency in Behavior Analysis: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice

Introduction

Behavior analysis, as a science dedicated to understanding and modifying behavior, has the potential to make significant contributions to improving the lives of individuals and communities. However, the effective application of behavior analysis requires consideration of cultural factors that can influence the behavior of individuals and the efficacy of interventions. This essay explores the importance of cultural competency in behavior analysis and the need to bridge the gap between theory and practice in this regard.

Cultural Competency in Behavior Analysis

Cultural competency refers to the ability to understand,....