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, ...

Cultural competence has become a familiar phrase in medical education and admissions. Medical schools emphasize it in mission statements, applicants often reference it in essays, and interviewers ...

“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, ...

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 ...