Cultural Competency Flashcards
__________________ interviewing allows a SW to ascertain the “meaning” of a persons cultural experiences.
Ethnographic interviewing
Who developed the cultural assessment tool, Culturagram?
Elaine Congress
What kind of tool is the Culturagram?
Family assessment tool that is used in families that are culturally diverse.
Name at least 5 of the 10 areas that Culturagram assesses?
- Reasons for relocation
- Legal status
- Time in community
- Language spoken at home and in the community
- Health beliefs
- Crisis events
- Holidays and special events
- Contact with cultural and religious institutions
- Values about education and work
- Values about family including structure, power, myths, and rulesf
Leon Chestang identified with two systems that allows for SW to identify with what clients face on a daily basis. What are they?
- Nurturing system
2. Structural system
Describe the differences.
- Nurturing system involves the individual
2. Structural system involves the entire community or identifying a person in or part of a group.
List 4 different adaptations of Bicultural Identity?
- Traditional Adaptation
- Marginal Adaptation
- Assimilation
- Bicultural Adaptation
individuals who adapts to society traditionally will adapt to the culture and lifestyle of the majority? True or False.
False
Traditional adaptation describes an individual who maintains cultural practices and traditions within the majority. i.e. marrying within the same ethnic group.
Cultural conflict is most relative to which type of adaptation?
A. Bicultural
B. Marginal Adaptation
C. Assimilation
D. Traditional Adaptation
B. Marginal
An individual will not identify with the majority or their own cultural, therefore causing conflict.
Assimilation can best be described as…an individual who refuses to recognize their own ethnic background. True or False
True
I love all things American and I still continue to practice all of my cultural practices and beliefs. I am an individual who has adapted ______________.
Biculturally
