Paradise Ballroom A
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Description
Though often misunderstood and misrepresented, cultural competence remains the preferred term and construct at the core of culture-related professional standards and guidelines from the APA, ACA, NASW, SAMHSA, and others. This is for good reason. When properly understood, cultural competence guides program development, professional development, and diagnosis and treatment in essential ways that relate to standards of care and boundaries of professional competence. Learn what cultural competence really means for both organizations and individual practitioners, why a correct understanding is important to quality of care, and how to pursue developing it.
Objectives
1. Explain the correct meaning of cultural competence as used in professional standards and guidelines including its relationship to subordinate constructs such as cultural humility, cultural responsiveness, and cultural intelligence.
2. Describe how professional standards limit scope of practice to one’s boundaries of cultural competence and how cultural distance can be used to assess the required degree of competence in individual encounters.
3. Identify a range of approaches that can be used to develop cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills and resources that can support such development.