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Multicultural Competence

Multicultural Competence. Developed by Tim Corbett RN, MA, LMHC. What is Multicultural Competence?. demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the patient’s culture, health-related needs, and culturally specific meanings of health and illness

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Multicultural Competence

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  1. Multicultural Competence Developed by Tim Corbett RN, MA, LMHC

  2. What is Multicultural Competence? • demonstrating knowledge and understanding of the patient’s culture, health-related needs, and culturally specific meanings of health and illness • accepting and respecting cultural differences not assuming that the health care provider’s beliefs and values are the same as the patient’s

  3. What is Multicultural Competence? • resisting judgmental attitudes • welcoming and being comfortable with cultural encounters • adapting care to be congruent with the patient’s culture • striving to reduce prejudice and bias • caregivers need both “culture-general” and “culture-specific” information to provide competent and sensitive care

  4. ASPECTS OF MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION • dominant language • regional dialects • contextual use of language • paralanguage variations: tone, volume, intonations and inflections • willingness to share thoughts and feelings • nonverbal cues: eye contact, gestures, facial expressions, use of touch, body language, spatial distance, acceptable greetings

  5. ASPECTS OF MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION • temporality: past, present, and future orientation of worldview • clock versus social time • amount of formality (use of names & titles)

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