and March Madness just days away‚ the issue of paying college athletes is as popular as ever. Despite the recent scandals‚ the popularity of college sports is at its all time high. With millions of people watching these sports‚ the broadcasting alone brings in over 700 million dollars each year for the NCAA. When the NCAA is making that much a year‚ doesn’t it make you wonder if the right people are being paid? The idea of paying college athletes to play dates back to the first intercollegiate
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Article : Multicultural Competence by Paul Kivel Cultural competence is to understand another culture well enough to be able to communicate and work with them. This article talks about cultural competency and how it is important to have cultural competence to be able to help people of minority groups and become allies with them. Learning to be open and sensitive to other cultural expression takes lot of time. In addition‚ for those who are able culturally competence in their own culture along with
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According to the American Psychology Association Guidelines cultural competence includes the assessment of cultural identity‚ acculturation‚ and family dynamics (P. Narra‚ R. Singer‚ Z. Li‚ S. Ash‚ & J. Esposito‚ 2012). Other professional organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association have also taken note of the importance of cultural competence (P. Narra‚ R. Singer‚ Z. Li‚ S. Ash‚ & J. Esposito‚ 2012). Cultural competence also will help to keep us morally ethical as well. Ethics are
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cultural competence? What is culturally competent care? These are very important questions to consider. Nurses are exposed to diverse cultures constantly in today ’s society and need to be able to provide appropriate care while still respecting a patient ’s cultural background. Cultural competence in nurses is a combination of culturally congruent behaviors‚ practice attitudes‚ structures and policies that allow nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. Cultural competence reflects
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Cultural Competence Reflection Cultural competence is continuum‚ in the sense that there is always room for self-assessment‚ improvement and reflection. The first time that I was exposed to the concept of cultural competence in a formal setting was this semester in pharmacy practice. I have always valued learning about different cultures. As a theology minor during my undergraduate years I took a reader course entitled ‘The Catholic Church and American Culture’ in which I learned about the various
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part of our nature to interact with others from different backgrounds‚ considering how diverse today’s society is. The way we behave and the attitudes we form towards those of different cultures is called intercultural competence. With respect to Assessing Intercultural Competence‚ it also relates to those that interact with different cultures‚ regardless of the location itself (Deardorff‚ 2011). I’d like to consider myself fairly well at being interculturally competent. I am confident in my own
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know what my strengths and weaknesses are. As a person who is strong in interpersonal intelligence I find that I am very strong in the social competence section of this test. This section is heavily explained as a persons ability to connect and understand others. In this area or section I find I’m strong in areas of interpersonal competence‚ cultural competence‚and peaceful conflict resolution. The reason I feel strong in these areas is because I feel as though I have a pretty good understanding of
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6 BUILDING DIVERSITY COMPETENCE IN SUPERVISION Notwithstanding that it is a core component of psychology training‚ diversity is one of the most neglected areas in supervision training and research. The majority of attention to diversity has been devoted to culture— just one particular aspect—rather than to the broader construct. Diversity includes culture in all its aspects‚ as well as socioeconomic status‚ race‚ religion‚ disabilities or ableness‚ age‚ gender‚ and sexual orientation‚ all of
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Critically analyze definitions of cultural competence and describe in your own words‚ what is the definition of cultural competence? According to (Leininger‚ 1979)‚ Cultural competence is divided in to two categories‚ the first one is the organizational cultural competence which is according to the National Center of Cultural Competence should hold a defined set of values and principles to be utilized to assess‚ work and measure the effectiveness of the serviced communities. The second category
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Competence-Performance Distinction A further difference between generativism and Bloomfieldian and post-Bloomfieldian structuralism - though in this respect generativism is closer to Saussurean structuralism - relates to the distinction that Chomsky draws between competence and performance. A speaker’s linguistic competence is that part of his knowledge - his knowledge of the language-system as such - by virtue of which he is able to produce the indefinitely large set of sentences that constitutes
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