Adjudicative competence

An Invisible Subject, Space ‘The central theme of this book is social and personal space and man 's perception of it’ (Hall, E.T 1966, p. 1). This is the first sentence of a book named ‘The hidden dimension’. Space and the perception of it, people normally imagine some physical objects, or something we can see through eyes. However, when we carefully think about the space, it is actually not just an object that can touch by our hands, can be something cannot see through our eyes but still can…

Monochronic and Polychronic Differences: Time Introduction A cultural anthropologist named, Edward Hall, introduced the concepts of low context and high context cultures in the mid twentieth century. A wide range of characteristics and behaviors determine the context classification of a culture. And within the two different cultural contexts, identified by Hall, there is a contrasting view of time, which is considered to be a non-verbal tool for communication. The study of how different…

Therapeutic communication is an essential skill to possess as a nurse. It is the nurse’s responsibility to interact with their patients in a way that treats the body as well as the mind and spirit. Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring is a central theory to nursing practice. This theory incorporates many aspects of therapeutic communication. Jean Watson describes the Ten Caritas Processes, all of which revolve around the idea of healing the person as a whole, instead of just the body. She describes…

their campuses in recent years to aid in producing 21st century global citizens (Osfield & Terrel, 2009; Jackson, 2008). To be competitive in the global marketplace, it is increasingly necessary to possess intercultural competence skills (Sample, 2012). Intercultural competence is defined as, “…the personal ability needed to communicate and work efficiently in intercultural every-day and business situations with members of different cultural groups or in a foreign cultural environment” (Behrnd…

This report identifies the challenges faced by the modern health professionals in understanding the complexities of providing culturally competent Aboriginal health, physiotherapy and rehabilitation care within the Australian primary health care system. Non-Indigenous health care professionals cannot truly understand the true complexity of the past impacts of colonialism, the political process and the community’s prejudice effects on the Indigenous health status. This report intends to inspire…

children targeted, kinds of facilities being delivered, and approaches of assigning families to specific treatment groups (Sweet & Appelbaum, 2004). Over the years home-based early intervention programs have been focusing on cross-cultural competence. Cultural competence within home-based early intervention services has professionals respond respectfully and effectively to children and families of all cultures, languages, classes, races, ethnic backgrounds, religions, and other diversity factors…

Have you ever wondered how the world communicated before the use of a translator? The answer is simple, non-verbal communication. Also recognized as universal communication. There are three main types of non-verbal communication; however I will touch on three. The main types of universal communications are body language; this can be anything from a smile to a hand shake. The second is voice tones; the tones of our voices can say a lot. Humans are the only specials that communicate with words.…

How do the poems “If—”, “Telephone Conversation”, “Remember”, and three other poems present and explore conflict. Conflict occurs everywhere, anytime, and doesn’t have to involve many people. “If—” presents the conflict between an individual and other people, which is also an individual’s conflict with society. “Telephone Conversation” presents the conflict between races in society. Both of these are examples of external conflict, which involves more than one person. “Remember”, on the other…

According to Dowling & Welch (2004) defined cross-cultural training as a planned intervention designed to increase the knowledge and skills of expatriates to live and work effectively and achieve general life satisfaction in an unfamiliar host culture. Cross-cultural training is generally seen by researchers as necessary to increase the probability of success on foreign assignments. The training should differ according to different phases of the foreign assignment and depending on the…

In modern life, there are full of communication. It accompanies us at all times— in school, in the home and in the society. On one hand we have to say with others, but someone will afraid of talking with strangers on the other hand. When we meet this problem, human communication is important in our life.In the following, I will share a story with you about myself in the mainland. The interpersonal conflict Two weeks ago, I went to mainland China to spend Spring Festival with my family. On…