After a successful pilot program with Cigna, the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) has rolled out a self-guided educational program aimed at improving the quality of ...

The American Hospital Association’s Health Research and Educational Trust offers a free cultural competence self-assessment developed by Dennis Andrulis and colleagues. Dennis Andrulis, formerly a ...

ReCAP: Economic Evaluation Alongside a Clinical Trial of Telephone Versus In-Person Genetic Counseling for BRCA1/2 Mutations in Geographically Underserved Areas Surgical providers reported treating ...

Cultural competence has become a major issue in nursing practice, given the current and projected US demographics as well as the long-standing health disparities in people of diverse racial, ethnic, ...

An integrated pattern of learned beliefs, values and behaviors that can be shared among groups Elements of cultural competency: personal identification, language, thoughts, communications, actions, ...

The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...

Cultural competence is a core value of professional psychology. While it's not a novel concept (cultural competence has been articulated for more than half a century.), cross-cultural practice may be ...

Given the increasing diversity of Canada, cultural competence is considered of paramount importance in practising mental health care effectively. The term cultural competence refers to cultural ...

Educators are very familiar with “soft skills,” or those that are peripheral to the core curriculum—nice additions if you have the time. Associating “soft” with a skill often means it is often ...