ABSTRACT The cultural competence approach has grown significantly in the North American human service professions. The reliance of social workers on cultural awareness to block the influence of their own culture in the helping process entails three problematic and conflicting assumptions‚ namely‚ the notion of human being as cultural artifact‚ the use of self as a technique for transcending cultural bias‚ and the subject-object dichotomy as a defining structure of the worker-client relationship
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Competence & Negligence Scenario 1: You work for a criminal defense attorney who is arrested outside of the courthouse on charges of inhaling nitrous oxide. He was at the courthouse for a pretrial hearing on a cocaine case. After the hearing‚ he returned to his car. He apparently passed out after inhaling as many as 14 canisters‚ stepped on the accelerator of his car and careened in reverse into a parked car. Nitrous oxide is commonly called laughing gas and induces a mild euphoria. The incident
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Herb Batista Jr. Assignment 1: Cultural Competence Today‚ cultural diversity is becoming more of the standard among social and work settings. Understanding culture is essential for relating to others outside of our own social norms‚ giving us the ability to interact within their social context rather than our own social boundaries. In order for us to understand this idea of culture we must become culturally competent. Cultural competence is best explained as a set of behaviors‚ viewpoints‚ and
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Amy Wilds EC107 Reflective Statement of Competence I Competency Statement I - To Establish and Maintain a Safe‚ Healthy Learning Environment To establish and maintain a safe‚ healthy learning environment I model safety practices and healthy routines in an environment that supports development and growth in these areas. My goal is to provide a clean healthy environment that meets each child’s physical needs. Making sure the classroom and playground are clean and safe at all times reduces the number
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need to obtain. That includes developing time-management‚ communication and writing skills‚ relationship building with our peers‚ and enhancing our cultural competence. The most important skills for social workers in this field are having interpersonal skills so you can appropriately interact with a wide range of people‚ be
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10th May 2011‚ London: Following several incidents involving the police and members of the public of different cultures‚ religions and beliefs the country has decided to educate the police force and publish a handbook that is designed to give officers a better understanding of the needs and expectations of the people in the area. This handbook will relate to everyone from asylum seekers and ethnic minorities to travelers‚ homosexuals and people with disabilities. The councils Head Officer in Diversity
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I wonder about how many competitive people in the world are actually competent at what they are competitive for. This is a good question‚ "Is it more important to be highly competitive or highly competent in order to be successful?" If you are a competitive person‚ I’d think that you strive for something without giving up‚ therefore‚ you should be slightly considered competent. Competent is to be properly qualified at something. A competent person knows how to do something with sufficient skill‚
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The struggle with diverse community among healthcare system has been a part of the cultural competency and the diverse cultural limiting the ability for health care professionals to facilitate and deliver patient-centered care across cultural lines. The studies has predicted that the rise of Asian American and their descendants is increasing quite fast by 8% of the United States of America (USA) population by 2020 (Park‚ Chesla‚ Rehm‚ Chun‚ 2011). As the numbers rapidly increases‚ the cultural
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Nate Haslam English 097/098 Essay #1 (Rough Draft) October 11‚ 2011 Moving to the Emerald City It was a complete culture shock when I moved from Salt Lake City‚ Utah to Seattle‚ Washington. I was off to college moving out on my own for the first time‚ moving to an entirely new city and state to play college basketball for North Seattle Community College. My Dad and I left Utah at four in the morning and we drove 850 miles to Seattle which we did in 15 hours straight in one day. We arrived
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Communication Competence Communication competence is the ability to choose a communication behavior that is both appropriate and effective for a given situation. Interpersonal competency allows one to achieve their communication goals without causing the other party to lose face. The model most often used to describe competence is the component model (Spitzberg & Cupach‚ 1984) which includes three components: 1) knowledge‚ 2) skill‚ and 3) motivation. Knowledge simply means knowing what behavior
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