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behaviors, attitudes, policies, and structures that enable them to work effectively cross-culturally” (Andrews, 2008, pp. 17). According to (American Academy of Nursing, 1992, 1993; Campinha-Bacote, 2000, 2002, 2003; Geron, 2002), “Individual cultural competence refer to a complex integration of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, skills and encounters with those from cultures different from one's own that enhance cross-cultural communication and interaction…

Likewise, counselors have to develop an ability to recognize which values and assumptions they hold regarding the desirability or undesirability of human behavior (Zunker, 2012). Counselors’ are more aware of the positive and negative emotional reactions they hold towards diverse clients which may inadvertently affect the potential for a counselor to build a shared helping relationship (Corey, 2013). Culturally competent counselors seek to examine and understand the world from the client’s…

As in the case of Jason, having an awareness of the client’s identities and multicultural background is key in helping Shakira build her strengths and helping me (the counselor) establish an understanding of the unique issues that concern her. To begin with, multicultural competence training can be beneficial to both the client and counselor. As a counselor, it will enable me to build rapport, respect, knowledge and awareness of my client’s cultural background. And like wise, it will help…

From being the longest country in the world and one of the skinniest, Chile is the place to be. From there exciting culture to the way they speak. I would like to explain the culture of communication in Chile, then I will explain some of the similarities that we have between our cultures and then finally the differences between them. I was honored and had the great opportunity to interview one of my good friends. His name is Franco Umana and he currently lives in Chile in the city of Chiguayante…

Arrived at 6:28. Today our PT was individual runs. The weather was cool, but not cold, and was thus perfect for running outdoors. I tried to keep up with Duck and Steele, and managed to do so for the first half fo the run. My goal is always to make it to the halfway point without having to slow down to a walk. I achieved this goal, but was feeling short of breath. I shortened my walking stints as short as possible, and only did so twice. As usual, I finished strong with a sprint to the finish.…

There is more to this world than what is out in your backyard. People often stick to what they know out of fear of feeling dumb. It is this fear that perpetrates ignorance and leads to the issues that we currently face with intercultural relations. We as a people need to become more aware of the greater world and the cultures within it. The best way to counter this ignorance is by making ourselves familiar with these cultures, and becoming familiar with the people in them. Some cultures people…

I started run track when I was 8 years of age. At a youthful age I ended up fixated on it. Every day, I was outside, running some place, going to each camp, competition, or amusement accessible. All through my adolescence, Track was my life. My fantasy was to grow up and win the secondary school state title. Fortunately, my fairly residential area had a notoriety state wide to produce top level groups each season. Tragically, this made the opposition to be picked to be on the group significantly…

The first day of school of my sophomore year in high school. I was asked if I wanted to join Cross Country by one of the coaches. I reply quickly with a yes. I worked as hard as I can every single day in practice. Every week, I am one minute faster in the five kilometer races. I think to myself “If I keep improving at this rate, I should get a time below nineteen minutes by the end of next season.” By the end of the season of my sophomore year, I got a time of twenty-one minutes. Summer starts…

The self-evaluation artifact for the cultural competence project provides a schematic diagram for analyzing my strengths, challenges & growth opportunities to become more culturally competent in regards to providing pharmaceutical care. A series of 3 parts were completed to further my understanding of various cultures and their impact in providing patient-centered care. The first 2 parts entailed watching a series of provider perspective videos and writing reflections in regard to questions…

From my last 3 years of running cross county I have learned a lot of things. One is that you should never give up, second is that if you work hard enough then you can achieve whatever you put your mind to, and third is how you can go from disliking something to loving something. How I've learned these things from cross county is when I first started cross country, my sophomore year I couldn't run to save my life. Coach would always time us on how fast we could run two miles and I would always…