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Cultural Competence and Social Work Education: Moving Toward Assessment of Practice Behaviors

Pages 311-324 | Accepted 02 Jul 2014, Published online: 03 Jun 2016
 

ABSTRACT

Social work educators are responsible for ensuring that future practitioners are culturally competent and have the ability to work effectively with people from different backgrounds. The purpose of this article is to address the current limitations in measuring cultural competence and to report the results of a qualitative study examining stakeholders’ conceptualizations of the definition, educational process, and evaluation of cultural competence in social work education. Findings support long-standing assumptions in the literature regarding the need for social workers to develop certain knowledge and attitudes as prerequisites of becoming culturally competent, and emphasize the need for further exploration of the way social workers define cultural competence, translate it into discrete practice behaviors, and assess how students demonstrate these behaviors.

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Jayshree S. Jani

Jayshree S. Jani is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Philip Osteen

Philip Osteen is Assistant Professor of Social Work at The Florida State University.

Stacy Shipe

Stacy Shipe is a doctoral student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

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