What is Cultural Competency

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Ability to teach someone racially, culturally, etc. different from you. Learn more in: Preparing Teacher Candidates for Diverse School Environments

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The ability of an individual to have an understanding of and appreciation for other cultures as well as subcultures within their own. Learn more in: The 5M Approach: Layers of Reflection

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The desire and ability to interact with others in a manner that values cultural differences and works to capitalize on the differences for positive outcomes. Learn more in: Becoming a Culturally Competent Educational Leader

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The awareness, knowledge, and skills needed to work with individuals who are culturally different from (or similar to) oneself. Learn more in: Developing LGBTQ Competence in Faculty: The Case of a Faculty Development Series

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Understanding and accepting different cultural values, attitudes, and behaviors. Learn more in: Hispanic/Latino Immigrant Women's Social Stressors: Silenced Voices

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A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together in a system; enabling that system to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. That is, being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact by valuing diversity. Learn more in: Faculty Memoirs: Study Abroad Business Program in China

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Is the ability of an individual to effectively interact with people of different cultures in a meaningful, knowledgeable, respectful and positive manner. It is the ability to understand, communicate with and effectively interact with people across cultures. Learn more in: Re-Complicating Intersectionality Considering Differences in Language and Personality Type When Considering Strategies for African American Women's Career Development

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Acceptance and respect for differences, continuing self-assessment, careful attention to dynamics of differences, continuous expansion of cultural knowledge and resources. Adaptations to belief systems, policies, and practices. Learn more in: Deficit Thinking and Additional Language Learners in Exceptional Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching for Language Development and Acculturation

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Set of academic knowledge that allows individuals to increase their understanding of salient aspects of new and unfamiliar cultures, and thus effectively operate in different cultural contexts. Learn more in: Work Stress, Culture, and Leadership: Building a Culture of Health through Mindfulness into Action

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The ability of an organization, group, or individual to work crossculturally in an effort to administer health care services and treatment; this is critical to the patient-physician relationship along with access to appropriate care and quality outcomes. Learn more in: Analytics: Unpacking AIDS Policy in the Black Community

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Demonstrated by incorporating, at all levels, the organization of the following: the importance of culture; the assessment of cross-cultural relations; including vigilance towards the dynamics that result from cultural differences; the expansion of cultural knowledge, and the adaptation of services to meet culturally specific needs ( Cross, Bazron, Dennis & Isaacs 1989 ). Learn more in: Retention of Rural Latina College Students, Engaging Strategic Leadership: A Chicana Feminist Theory Perspective on Retention

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The ability for an individual to have consistent behaviors and attitudes that are congruent with the cross-cultural systemic structure of the institution in which one is navigating. Learn more in: Promoting Social and Academic Wellness Among African American Adolescent Males: Culturally Responsive Approaches

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It is the ability to understand and work efficiently with people from diverse cultures by interacting effectively and being proficient in intercultural and intra cultural knowledge. Learn more in: How Aware Are We as Rehab Physicians?: Importance of Knowing the “Self” for Enhancing Physician Competency in Multicultural Healthcare

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The ability to recognize, value, and affirm the worth of people of all cultures, languages, races, and classes. Learn more in: Racial Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Strategies for Educational Professionals