Being a 'Culturally Competent' Social Worker: Making Sense of a Murky Concept in Practice

Harrison, Gai; Turner, Rachel

doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcq101

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“…Culture has an important impact on perceptions and behaviors of people (Harrison and Turner, 2011). Thus, cultural factors may have different effects on aggression (Bergeron and Schneider, 2005;Forbes et al, 2009).…”

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Validity and Reliability of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in Turkish Adolescents

Önder¹,

Avci²,

ColakkadÄ±oglu³

2016

Educ. Res. Rev.

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The aim of this study was to adapt the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire (RPQ), developed to measure two dimensions of aggression which are reactive and proactive, to Turkish and test the validity and reliability of the Turkish form. The study group consisted of 278 students in four junior high schools in Adana, Turkey, and 485 students in four high schools in Hatay, Turkey. One-factor and twofactor models were compared in the study of Confirmatory Factor Analysis conducted to examine the construct validity of the scale and the two-factor model was found to have better fit values for both junior high school and high school students, as well as the general study group as a whole. It was found that reactive and proactive aggressions have significant relations with attitude towards violence, trait anger, delinquency, deviant peers, anxiety, depression and hostility. Furthermore, it was determined that the scale has high internal consistency and item-total correlation. The results obtained in this study are consistent with the results of the original form of the scale. Findings of the study demonstrate that the Turkish version of RPQ has adequate reliability and validity values.

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confidence: 99%

Validity and Reliability of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in Turkish Adolescents

Önder¹,

Avci²,

ColakkadÄ±oglu³

2016

Educ. Res. Rev.

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“…First, diversity should be located in the field of culturally sensitive or culturally competent practice (Lum 2007;Kohli et al 2010;Harrison and Turner 2011). Several US-based models of intervention in social work, education and psychology have built on cultural competence as a 'multidimensional construct', broadly defined as professionals' incremental ability to meet the needs and expectations (both of them culturally defined) of ethnic minority groups (Boyle and Springer 2001, 55).…”

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“…Having said of the need for stronger investment in culturally oriented education and training, this charge may be instrumental in downplaying the responsibility and underachievement of social work agencies (Harrison and Turner 2011). Promisingly, in this respect, a case has recently been made for a shift of focus from 'staff cultural competence' to 'cultural responsiveness at the organizational level' (Chow and Austin 2008, 60).…”

Section: Ethnic and Racial Studies 611mentioning

confidence: 99%

(Super)diversity and the migration–social work nexus: a new lens on the field of access and inclusion?

Boccagni¹

2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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The notions of diversity and superdiversity are of promising relevance to social work with immigrant clients. They enable a nuanced appreciation of the complex and varied sources of inequality to which such clients are exposed. However, these categories are sometimes employed in overly principled or prescriptive tones, and their distinctive contribution is relatively under-debated. How can diversity and superdiversity be used to make sense of migrants' disadvantages as welfare clients, and what do they add to the pre-existing social work perspectives? This paper revisits three major issues from within the literature on social work with immigrants: (1) the shifting ways of framing these clients; (2) the relevance of diversity and superdiversity in the self-representations and organizational arrangements of service providers; (3) the methodological underpinnings, and ensuing dilemmas, of helping relationships with immigrant clients. Overall, social work emerges as an exemplary field to assess the conceptual transition from diversity towards superdiversity.

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“…The workers' adjustment of practice interventions was indicative of their understanding and acknowledgment that personal values and beliefs have their genesis in formative socio-cultural histories (Harrison & Turner, 2011;Hosken, 2013). Workers articulated values that resonate with both the AASW's commitment to social justice and human rights and its mandate to demonstrate culturally sensitive interventions (AASW, 2010).…”

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“…WH commits to "continue to deliver and enhance culturally appropriate health care" (Western Health, 2015, p. 17) through the provision of professional development opportunities, focussing these opportunities on integration and learning, i.e., competency, rather than on humility. Nevertheless, this responsibility, as noted by Harrison and Turner (2011) and Anderson, Scrimshaw, Fullilove, Fielding, and Normand (2003), and echoed in the workers' responses, also needs a reciprocal worker commitment to attend the professional development opportunities.…”

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Hospitals and cultural diversity: social worker experiences and reflections

Testa

2017

ANZSWJ

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INTRODUCTION:Social work accrediting bodies mandate that workers analyse ways in which cultural values and structural forces shape client experiences and opportunities and that workers deconstruct mechanisms of exclusion and asymmetrical power relationships. This article reports the findings of a small-scale qualitative study of frontline hospital social workers' experiences and understanding of their mandate for culturally sensitive practice. METHODS:The study involved one-hour, semi-structured interviews with 10 frontline hospital social workers. The interviews sought to understand how frontline workers and their organisations understood culturally sensitive practice. Drawing on their own social cultural biographies, workers described organisational policy and practices that supported (or not) culturally sensitive practice. Narrative analysis was used to extract themes. FINDINGS:Data indicate that frontline hospital social workers demonstrated their professional mandate for culturally sensitive practice. Workers were firm in their view that working with the culturally other requires humility as well as a preparedness to value and engage the multiple cultural meanings that evolve in the patient-worker encounter. CONCLUSION:The findings highlight that mandating cultural sensitivity does not necessarily result in such practice. Cultural sensitivity requires an understanding of how cultural and social location may be implicated in sustaining the dominant cultural narrative and signals the need for workers, systems and organisations to facilitate appropriate learning experiences to explore culturally sensitive practice.

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Being a 'Culturally Competent' Social Worker: Making Sense of a Murky Concept in Practice

Cited by 77 publications

References 12 publications

Validity and Reliability of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in Turkish Adolescents

Validity and Reliability of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire in Turkish Adolescents

(Super)diversity and the migration–social work nexus: a new lens on the field of access and inclusion?

Hospitals and cultural diversity: social worker experiences and reflections

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