After a successful pilot program with Cigna, the Georgetown University National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) has rolled out a self-guided educational program aimed at improving the quality of ...

Culture refers to the ideas, customs, and behaviors of a group of people or a society (1). It influences just about everything you do — the way you speak, the foods you eat, what you consider to be ...

Vernita Mayfield agreed to answer a few questions about her book, Cultural Competence Now: 56 Exercises to Help Educators Understand and Challenge Bias, Racism, and Privilege. Vernita Mayfield, a ...

How effective am I at working across cultural differences? Do others see me as culturally competent? One of the key frameworks of the Navigating Difference workshop, the Developmental Model of ...

Cultural competence has become a common buzzword among aspiring physicians. More medical schools are emphasizing cultural competence in their curricula and med school applicants often cite cultural ...

Recent articles have purported that COVID-19 is negatively impacting Black and Latina/o American communities to a greater extent than White communities. One reason cited for this disparity is the ...

“The world felt larger when the internet was small,” writes Hal Conick, “Twenty years ago, 33 percent of internet users were in the U.S. while less than 1.5 percent of the world’s population was ...

Human emotional development is deeply embedded in social and cultural contexts, yet much of our scientific understanding is ...

Many humanistic therapists aspire to practice “unconditional positive regard,” an unwavering acceptance and support of the client popularized by American psychological titan Carl Rogers. Like all ...