Social workers who learn how to support patients with diverse values, beliefs, and behaviors have a good chance of providing quality care, BCSSW Professor Karen Bullock said at the School’s annual ...

“Cultural competence” was coined by anthropologist James Green in 1982, and then disseminated to the fields of medicine (see Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998), social work, psychology, psychotherapy, ...

Cultural competence has become a major issue in nursing practice, given the current and projected US demographics as well as the long-standing health disparities in people of diverse racial, ethnic, ...

From child welfare to housing security to substance use, social workers are at the forefront of serving our communities’ most vulnerable residents. Michiganians deserve social workers who are not only ...

Despite being a cherished ideal in psychotherapy for decades, the term “cultural competence” has become increasingly flawed. While largely well-intentioned, it has poorly accounted for the power ...