Values and Attitudes Essential to Building Relationships and Partnering with Families
As you have been learning, understanding your own values and beliefs and how they impact your interactions with others is critical to building effective partnerships and communicating with families. Often, however, we do not understand our own values and belief systems and how they impact our world view until we interact with systems that differ from our own.
In this Discussion, you will have an opportunity to explore underlying values and beliefs that may impact your communication and relationships with families. Review the article “The Role of Self-Assessment in Achieving Cultural Competence” and complete onlythe Communication Styles and Values and Attitudes portions of the Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services and Supports in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Settings.
After you have reflected on the results:
Post:
- Your definition what it means to be a culturally competent communicator
- Ways in which your values and attitudes may impact your effectiveness in developing thriving relationships and partnerships with families
An overview of the ways in which you believe you need to grow and develop with regard to cultural competence in the areas of communicatio
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A culturally competent communicator can be described as the individual who has the knowledge of different cultures around them, has the capacity to deal with cultural dynamics and also values and respects diversity (Berardo and Deardorff, 2012). Cultural beliefs and customs do not hinder a culturally competent communicator’s ability to communicate…
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