Cultural Competency/ Attitudes

Question 1

what is culture?

Answer 1

• any group of people who identify with one another on the basis of some common purpose, need, or similarity of background.
• includes: gender, race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, disability.

Question 2

what is cultural competency?

Answer 2

-lifelong pursuit of increasing personal awareness of other cultures.

Question 3

what are the 3 levels of developing cultural competency in TR practice?

Answer 3

1. primary level
   - awareness of worldview
2. secondary level
   - developing culturally appropriate strategies and techniques
3. advance level
   - continuing education

Question 4

what are antecedents?

Answer 4

• conditions that exist before beliefs, attitudes, and intensions are formed
• communities, past experiences, families, friends help to shape our beliefs.

Question 5

what are beliefs?

Answer 5

-what they perceive to be true(whether they are true or not)

Question 6

what are attitudes?

Answer 6

-learned predisposition to respond in a consistent manner(neg or pos)

Question 7

what are intentions?

Answer 7

-anticipation of behaviour based on acquired information and attitudes.

Question 8

what are behaviours?

Answer 8

-observable and measurable act, response, movement

Question 9

what is stigma?

Answer 9

• undesired differentness that separates a person from others in society.
• results in a person not being values because they possess an attribute that deviates from the norm.
• stigmas may affect ones self-perception.

Question 10

what is stereotype?

Answer 10

• conforming to a fixed or general pattern
• a standardized mental picture held in a common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion or attitude.

Question 11

what are some negative discrimination?

Answer 11

• employment
• housing
• health care

Question 12

how do attitudes influence expectation?

Answer 12

• self-fufilling prophecy
• over-exaggeration assumption
• spread phenomenon