How do you develop cultural competence?
Fortunately, say Helms and other experts, there are plenty of ways to get that training and experience on your own:
- Learn about yourself.
- Learn about different cultures.
- Interact with diverse groups.
- Attend diversity-focused conferences.
- Lobby your department.
What are the five principles of cultural competence?
Contained within this guide is a walkthrough of the five building blocks of cultural competence: open attitude, self-awareness, awareness of others, cultural knowledge, and cultural skills.
What are 4 strategies that support cultural competence?
Best Practices for Cultural Competency:
- Value Diversity. Respect all cultures.
- Self-Awareness. Recognize any personal biases against people of different cultures and work to eliminate them.
- Awareness and Acceptance of Differences.
- Dynamics of Differences.
- Accept Responsibility.
- Knowledge of Patient’s Culture.
- Adaptation.
What are the 6 stages of cultural competence?
The Cross framework emphasizes that the process of achieving cultural competency occurs along a continuum and sets forth six stages including: 1) cultural destructiveness, 2) cultural incapacity, 3) cultural blindness, 4) cultural pre-competence, 5) cultural competency and 6) cultural proficiency.