What is cultural competency

Cultural Competence is about the desire to have greater understanding between people, to be respectful to different cultural perspectives, to strengthen cultural safety, and to work towards equality in opportunity.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

What is cultural competence? Group of answer choicesIt refers to understanding other people’s cultural values and perspectives.Recognizing differences without assigning a specific value to any one culture.The ability to effectively interact, work, and develop meaningful relationships with people of various cultural backgrounds.All of the above

According to Walker et al., cultural competence always enables easy and appropriate interactions between people of different cultures.Group of answer choicesTrueFalse

According to Walker et al., cultural competence for individuals requires ...Group of answer choicespractising tolerance of other culturesidentifying and challenging one’s own cultural assumptionsbecoming more culturally aware

Cultural competence is a therapist’s understanding of, and attention to, ________.Group of answer choicestreating everyone the same regardless of cultural backgroundissues related to whether the client is considered normal or deviantrace, culture, and ethnicity in providing treatmentissues related to being a female therapist treating a male client