Cultural competency

Cultural competency means to be respectful and responsive to the health beliefs and practices—and cultural and linguistic needs—of diverse population groups. Discuss strategies to provide care to patients who are from different cultures and may have different cultural...

Cultural Competency

The notion of a continuum of cultural competency pervades much discussion of practice among individuals ofheterogeneous racial and cultural backgrounds. According to the National Center for Cultural Competence(n.d.), the term cultural competency denotes organizations...

Cultural competency

Social work administrators can use their roles as leaders to increase cultural competency within their organizations and, thus, help to create positive social change. As social work administrators critically assess situations in which social injustice or inequality...