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- The movement toward a “culture of competence“ in the field of professional psychology has been steadily growing. This has been evidenced by multiple initiatives by the American Psychological Association and National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology, including the APA Task Force on the Assessment of Competence.
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Psychologists strive to conduct culturally appropriate and informed research, teaching, supervision, consultation, assessment, interpretation, diagnosis, dissemination, and evaluation of efficacy as they address the first four levels of the Layered Ecological Model of the Multicultural Guidelines.
- In search of cultural competence
In search of cultural competence. Psychologists still know...
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- Training Culturally Competent Psychologists
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- In search of cultural competence
- Cultural Adaptations
- How Do They Look overall?
- A Work in Progress
This thrust to improve the scientific aspect of culturally competent treatment research means that a central research focus has been a pragmatic one: modifying evidence-based treatments for different groups, otherwise known as "cultural adaptations." The tack follows a long period of treatment and research experimentation beginning in the 1960s tha...
In general, meta-analyses confirm the effectiveness of such adaptations. One, reported by Timothy B. Smith, PhD, Domenech Rodriguez and Bernal in a 2011 article in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, looked at 65 experimental and quasi-experimental studies that included some form of adapted treatment. Adaptations for ethnic-minority clients were mo...
Mixed findings like these underscore the fact that the field still has plenty of room to grow. To this end, researchers are exploring areas they think are important to help advance science and practice in cultural competence, both related and unrelated to cultural adaptations. For example, researchers are developing frameworks to guide the adaptati...
We conducted a systematic review to characterize features and evaluate outcomes of cultural competence trainings delivered to mental health providers.
Cultural competency works because it creates: (a) a contextual match with clients’ external realities; (b) an experiential match in the microsystem of the therapeutic relationship or framework; and (c) an intrapersonal feeling of being understood and empowered within the client.
- Joyce Chu, Amy Leino, Samantha Pflum, Stanley Sue
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Oct 8, 2018 · The results from this study indicate that the process for training doctoral students to become culturally competent continues to evolve. Approximately 41% of programs in the late 1970s (Bernal & Padilla, 1982) included a diversity-related course, compared with 62% in 1990 (Bernal & Castro, 1994).
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Training psychologists to be culturally competent in the provision of psychological services to a diverse clientele is critically important in an increasingly pluralistic society. Several issues underscore this importance.
May 1, 2021 · Attention to cultural factors in counseling is critical, and theories have emerged in counseling and psychology to describe competence for working with multicultural clients.
