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Achieving cultural competence: the challenge for clients and health care workers in a multicultural society
- Authors:
- BOMDER Bette, MARTIN Laura, MIRACLE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.35-42.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
Increasingly, health care practitioners are recognising the importance of culture in their interactions with clients and colleagues. As the United States population becomes more diverse, practitioners face situations in which their clients' cultural backgrounds are clearly different from their own. Argues that skills that enhance care providers' abilities to recognise different cultural values, beliefs, and practices and to address these factors in intervention are likely to lead to more successful treatment outcomes. Further, professional groups are placing greater value on such skills not only because their client populations are more diverse group of individuals is joining the ranks of health care professions.