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Showing 1 to 20 of 116 for “"Cultural competency"”.
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Cultural competency in respiratory care education programs
… skills as well as technical expertise. Cultural competency is one of those skills. The purpose of this study was to explore Respiratory Care Education Program's (RCEPs) integration of cultural competency in its curriculum. The population was all Associate's and Bachelor's degree …
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Cultural competency : an inside view of today's classrooms
… teacher characteristics on their level of cultural competency as measured by the Cultural Competency Survey. Teacher characteristics of interest were sex, age, years of teaching, grade level currently teaching, and degree level earned.The sample consisted of 2800 teachers, teaching in 82 …
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Beyond cultural competency: Using literature to foster socially conscious medicine
… the past three decades, training programs in cultural competency have enjoyed increasing popularity in medical schools and in continuing medical education. Proponents of cultural competency generally hold that when physicians and other health-care professionals are trained in cultural issues, …
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Cultural Competency and Well Being in the Global Gathering Place
Cultural competency is increasingly embraced in the provision of social and health services to newcomers to Canada. Cultural competency is a fluid process along a continuum which is present at any organization or institution which provides services to clientele with diverse backgrounds. This thesis …
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Obtaining Cultural Competency Skills: Perceptions from Supervisors in Higher Education
… to obtain the perceptions of supervisors on cultural competency. Eighteen supervisors were interviewed. The results demonstrated supervisors’ support of incorporating cultural competency as part of their professional development. However, supervisors indicated the current supervisor training …
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Cultural Competency, Recruitment, And Retention In The International School: A Symbiotic Relationship
… leaders use to integrate host country cultural competencies in the orientation and recruitment processes to acculturate new staff? Participation took place through a REDCap online survey distributed to 442 current Academy for International School Heads (AISH) members around the world, …
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Exploration of the value of electronic discourse for developing cultural competency in college freshman
… to explore the impact of electronic discourse on cultural competency growth among college students. Data were gathered by monitoring six discussion groups, three of which held face-to-face (FTF) discussions and three of which held electronic discussions (ED). Each group was led by a college …
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Perceptions of cultural competency skills among professional housing and residential life staff at postsecondary institutions
… support diverse students. Responses to the Multicultural Competence for Student Affairs Preliminary 2 scale (MCSA-P2) survey instrument provided a basis to compare the level of cultural competence of HRL staff across six demographic variables: gender, age, ethnicity, professional status, …
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Cultural Competency in Healthcare Policy: Pursuing Elder, African-American Diabetics as Stakeholders in Successful Treatment
Healthcare agencies and researchers identify several areas in which healthcare disparity affects elder, African-American diabetics including higher rates of diagnosis, higher limb amputation, increased kidney failure, and stroke. While the disparities have been documented, elder, African-American …
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Bridging the Gap – Prioritizing Cultural Competency in Not-For-Profit Organizational Strategy for Global Teacher Training
… teachers weakened due to growing physical and cultural distance, the development of training material became less informed by local insights. This gap was exacerbated during the Covid-19 pandemic, when continued development occurred with reduced Ugandan involvement and minimal on-the-ground …
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Treating Invisible Wounds: Improving The Cultural Competency Of Non-Va Providers Treating Rural Veterans Through Telepsychiatry
… exists in regard to medical providers becoming culturally competent in treating veteran populations. Similarly, much literature also exists on the use of telemedicine, or more specifically, telepsychiatry in healthcare. However, there is a dearth of literature that examines the relationship …
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Assessing Young Males' Perspectives On The Cultural Competency Of Juvenile Justice Staff And Predicting Psychosocial Functioning
… behavior. In this study, it is reasoned that culturally sensitive interactions may be associated with adjudicated youth behavior. The purpose of this project is to (1) examine the differences in adjudicated male youths' perceptions of the level of cultural competency in juvenile justice staff …
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Evaluation of cultural competency medical education curriculum through the assessment of changes in student racial attitudes
… in incoming medical students' attitudes towards cultural competency issues (in this case color-blind racism) following a cultural competency intervention during the first year of medical school. This study also examined whether there were significant differences in cultural attitudes when scores …
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Assessment of the need for cultural competency training within crisis negotiation training in the State of Arizona
… their negotiations? 2) Do they currently receive cultural competency training? 3) Do they have a desire for/ or need for cultural competency training? 4) What kind of cultural competency training would be beneficial for them? Based on the responses from the negotiators, I will make recommendations …
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A Mixed Method Study Of A Former Special Operations Community: Identifying Factors That Effect Cross-Cultural Competency
… however, over the next decade, multiple cross-cultural failures in operations ranging from Afghanistan to Iraq, would have an impact on the culture of each nation, with bilateral frustration at best and suffering and death at worst. More than 15 years after 9/11, the military continues to …
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The Development and Evaluation of a Cultural Competency Training Programme for Psychologists Working with Māori: A Training Needs Analysis
… of this study was to develop and evaluate a cultural competency training programme for clinical psychology students to work with Māori consumers. A pilot programme (study 1) was developed from the international and national cultural competency and bicultural training literature. Following the …
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Are counselling psychology training courses developing multicultural competencies in their trainees? Comparing cultural competency in health care and counselling psychology trainees
The need for professionals to develop multicultural awareness, knowledge and skills has been recognised in literature and mental health practitioner programmes since the early 1970s. Despite the professional growth of the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology (DCoP), recent research still suggests …
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Digging Below the Demographic Level: Examining the Effects of Internalized Racial and Social Attitudes on White Physicians-In-Training Self-Reported Cross Cultural Competency
… in relation to aspects of self-perceived cross cultural competence. Specifically, internal motivation to respond without prejudice, ethnocultural empathy, color-blind racial attitudes, and general just world beliefs were examined as possible predictors of patient centered attitudes toward …
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Listening with the third Ear: Exploring the practical philosophy of transcultural understanding
The problem of crosscultural misunderstanding in clinical contexts has given rise to a thriving field of “cultural competency” training and materials. With few exceptions, experts and institutions in this field have defined cultural competency using instrumental forms of reason and have studied the …
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