The late 1990s marked the beginning of a movement within the human services professions that stressed the importance of cultural competency. Psychology and social work were the pioneers; these fields ...

Asa Hilliard stated, “Cultural competence is a prerequisite for professional competence”. Throughout the 1990s the acquisition of cultural competence focused on three main areas: knowledge, awareness, ...

Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG, a distinguished infertility specialist, highlights the pivotal role of cultural humility, diversity, acknowledgment of historical injustices, and collective action ...

Relevant beyond health care, cultural humility can more appropriately be thought of as a basic approach toward others; an approach that would be helpful on both sides of the current social dialogue.

I once received a sign-out on a patient from the emergency department for a well-appearing young child who was admitted for a urinary tract infection. Normally, a simple urinary tract infection does ...

This approach to communication is explained, along with strategies for practicing the approach when treating patients from these communities. Every ethnic and racial group in the country is affected ...

Humility was a research topic for sociologist Barret Michalec until he realized how much it was missing from his own life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The digitally-based academy, intended for young children, is offering a new feature to teach diversity, equity, and inclusion ...

The ability to provide therapeutic services online has drastically changed the therapy landscape and the demand for digital solutions has continued to grow rapidly in the context of the COVID-19 ...

Two (2) female medical students are working together on a group assignment. They are writing their notes on a laptop and sitting at a desk in a training laboratory. They are both wearing scrubs. The ...

In the summer of 2016, I was in a cab in Yokohama, Japan, trying to use the few Japanese phrases I know. The Japanese cab driver must have detected from my accent that I was an American. He asked me ...