Cultural Competence

Cultural Competence



Cultural Competence

Cultural competence refers to the set of attitudes, practices, and policies that enables a person or agency to work well with people from differing cultural groups. (Au & Jordan, 1981)

Other related terms that have been used are cultural sensitivity, Trans-cultural skills, diversity competence, and multicultural expertise. (Mohatt & Erickson, 1981)

Discussions of cultural competence can be divided broadly into two groups. The first takes a cultural literacy approach. In this approach, information is provided about working with people from a specific culture on issues of interpersonal violence in general, or on a particular problem of interpersonal violence. ...