Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competence

The most common cultural misconception among policy makers, program planners and service providers is an underestimation of the needs for formal support for ethnic elders.

true

Understanding culture helps us to understand how others interpret their environment.

true

Developing culturally appropriate programs includes which of the following?

A: All of the above valuing diversity; being conscious of the dynamics inherent when cultures interact; institutionalizing cultural knowledge; adapting service delivery based on an understanding of cultural diverstiy

Which of the following is the result of culturally competent service professionals?

A: all of the above establishment of positive helping relationships; engaging the client in their care; improving the quality of services provided

Which of the following are the two primary dimensions of cultural competence?

Surface Structure and Deep Structure

A person's race and ethnicity correlate with persistent, and often, increasing health and socioeconomic disparities among U.S. populations.

True

Cultural competence is rooted in respect, validation and openness towards someone with different social and cultural perceptions and expectations than your own.

True

Understanding culture and its relationship to service delivery will increase access to services as well as improve the quality of the service outcomes.

True

Which of the following terms is defined as a set of cultural behaviors and attitudes integrated into the practice methods of a system, agency, or its professionals, which enables them to work effectively in cross cultural situations?

cultural competence

When Care Solutions, LLC needs to interpret for a patient, using young children or youth to interpret is recommended

false

Over the next few decades the population of the U.S. will have a growing population of racial and ethnic minority elders

true

Cultural competency is achieved by ____________ knowledge about individuals and groups of people into specific practices and policies applied in appropriate cultural settings.

translating and integrating

By 2030, about one quarter of the elderly population will belong to a minority racial or ethnic group.

true

Cultural competence begins with an awareness of your own cultural beliefs and practices, and recognition that people from other cultures may not share them.

true

Culture plays a complex role in the development of health and human service delivery programs.

true

Culture shapes how people see their world and how they function within that world.

true