Although educational equity is a fundamental pillar of the American education system, school districts are struggling to ensure their students feel included, safe, and supported. This is in large part ...

What does cultural competence mean? Working in healthcare, you’ve probably heard this term thrown around a lot. In the last few years in particular, cultural competence in nursing has been a hot topic ...

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 ...

Many humanistic therapists aspire to practice “unconditional positive regard,” an unwavering acceptance and support of the client popularized by American psychological titan Carl Rogers. Like all ...

The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix C: Commissioned Paper on a Proposed Framework for Integration of Health Care Quality Measures Related to Health Literacy, Language Access, and Cultural Competence." ...