Issues related to Cultural Sensitivity and Awareness



Issues related to Cultural Sensitivity and Awareness

Introduction

In the United States, service providers interact with families, children, and other professionals from wide variety of cultural, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds that suggest an escalating need for training of cultural competency. Normally, it has been believed that knowing about particular cultures makes convenient to appreciate and respect the differences and to interact with each other effectively no matter from which culture they belong. However, along with many conveniences there are also some issues that are related to cultural sensitivity and awareness as it may create ...