Chapter 2 Flashcards
What is cultural destructiveness?
agencies whose practices are actively destructive to clients and their culture
What is an example of cultural destructiveness?
Historical denial of access to traditional helpers or healers for people of color
What is cultural incapacity?
agencies whose practices are not intentionally destructive, but who demonstrate a lack of experience or capacity to help people of color and their communities (agencies unintentionally perpetuate societal biases)
What is an example of cultural incapacity?
Providers who hold lower expectations for clients of color
What is cultural blindness?
agencies who attempt to be unbiased by asserting that race and culture make no difference in how service is provided, applying a dominant culture to all
What is an example of cultural blindness?
providers who encourage assimilation and/or participate in victim blame
What is cultural pre-competence?
agencies who recognize problems serving diverse clients, but do not know how to improve despite genuine desire (these agencies tend to focus on single ethnic populations and succumb to tokenism in hiring practices)
What is an example of cultural pre-competence?
agencies that overestimate the cultural competence of one or two providers of color
What is basic cultural competence?
agencies who understand what skills are required to become culturally competent, and who are honest in their shortcoming
What is an example of basic cultural competence?
agencies who hire unbiased staff, utilize consultation with communities of color, and assess who they are realistically prepared to serve
What is ethnocentrism?
Culturally diverse behavior is understood in term of comparison to one’s own culture
What is ethnorelativism?
Cultures are understood within their own context; culturally diverse behavior is not good or bad, only different
What is self-honesty in terms of cultural competency?
hiding from our negative feels about race, ethnicity, and cultural differences keep us in the dark
What is cultural destructiveness?
agencies whose practices are actively destructive to clients and their culture
What is an example of cultural destructiveness?
historical denial of access to traditional helpers or healers for people of color
What is cultural incapacity?
agencies whose practices are not intentionally destructive, but who demonstrate a lack of experience or capacity to help people of color and their communities
What is an example of cultural incapacity?
providers who hold lower expectations for clients of color
What is cultural blindness?
agencies who attempt to be unbiased by asserting that race and culture make no difference in how service is provided, applying a dominant cultural approach to all
What is an example of cultural blindness?
providers who encourage assimilation and participate in victim blame
Agencies who recognize problems serving diverse clients but do not know how to improve despite genuine desire
cultural pre-competence
What is this an example of: agencies that overestimate the cultural competence of one or two providers of color
cultural pre-competence
What is cultural proficiency?
agencies who, in addition to demonstrating the characteristics of basic cultural competence, advocate broadly for multiculturalism and participate in related research
What is an example of cultural proficiency?
agencies who advocate for multiculturalism throughout the healthcare system
What is self-awareness in regard to cultural competence?
understanding the ways one’s own culture impacts behavior, and understanding when how one’s own cultural boundaries create conflict
dynamics of difference
understanding the dynamics between two cultures and when cultural miscommunication is creating conflict
