CULTURALLY COMPETENT PRACTICE: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERSTANDING DIVERSE GROUPS & JUSTICE ISSUES will help you become a more informed helping professional through its strong tradition of presenting a model for understanding, measuring, and evaluating cultural competence. Author Doman Lum explains how clients and workers can become culturally competent and proficient by working through culturally based problems together. This text emphasizes cultural competence as a dialogical process and challenges students and professors to continue the conversation to achieve greater mutual understanding and social justice.
Table of Contents
Part I: CULTURALLY COMPETENT PERSPECTIVES. 1. Culturally Competent Practice. 2. Social Context. 3. Human Rights and Social and Economic Justice. Part II: A CULTURAL COMPETENCE STRUCTURE. 4. A Framework for Cultural Competence. 5. Cultural Awareness. 6. Knowledge Acquisition. 7. Skills Development. PART III: CULTURALLY DIVERSE GROUPS. 8. Cultural Competence with First Nations People. 9. Cultural Competence with European Americans. 10. Cultural Competence with African Americans. 11. Cultural Competence with Latino Americans. 12. Cultural Competence with Asian Americans. 13. Cultural Competence with Muslim Americans. 14. Cultural Competence with Women. 15. Cultural Competence with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons. 16. Cultural Competence with Persons with Disabilities. 17. Cultural Competence with Elderly Persons. Part IV: PRESENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS. 18. Some Reflections on Culturally Competent Practice.
