Cultural Competence: Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respect

Cultural Competence: Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respect

Community Week 6

Chapter 10: Cultural Competence: Awareness, Sensitivity, and Respect

Think for a while about cultural practices and how they affect health or illness in your own family. They may be difficult to identify as such at first, but they do exist. What ideas about illness prevention does your family adhere to? What do you do when someone gets sick? What rituals does your family practice when someone dies?

Follow the discussion questions participation and submission guidelines.

· Follow the 3 x 3 rule: minimum three paragraphs per DQ, with a minimum of three sentences each paragraph.

· All answers or discussions comments submitted must be in APA format according to Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (6th ed.) 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4338-0561-5

· Minimum of two references, not older than 2015.minimum three paragraphsminimum three paragraphs

Requirements: minimum three paragraphs

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People from diverse cultures have health beliefs, therapies and home remedies they follow when an illness strikes. Notably, families have unique cultural values they practice as remedies for disease. Wolters Kluwer (2020) explain that understanding…

 

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