Culturally Competent Practice: A Framework for Understanding by Doman Lum

By Doman Lum

CULTURALLY powerfuble perform: A FRAMEWORK FOR realizing varied teams & JUSTICE matters can assist you turn into a extra expert assisting expert via its powerful culture of proposing a version for knowing, measuring, and comparing cultural competence. writer Doman Lum explains how consumers and employees can develop into culturally useful and knowledgeable by means of operating via culturally dependent difficulties jointly. this article emphasizes cultural competence as a dialogical technique and demanding situations scholars and professors to proceed the dialog to accomplish better mutual figuring out and social justice.

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In considering how recreation relates to the systems described above, we must understand that each of the systems is in a constant state of flux. For example, the family system that includes a child with a disability will continuously undergo change. As the child moves from childhood to adolescence, she will undergo physical and social changes that will have an impact on her relationships with other family members. Sexuality will become an important consideration for both the child, her parents, and quite likely other family members.

These concepts are consistent with a person-centered approach to recreation services and will be referred to both implicitly and explicitly throughout the text. These concepts are what will ensure that people with disabilities, whether in a recreation or a therapeutic recreation environment, will be encouraged and supported to achieve their full potential. These concepts, if learned and practiced, will place the person and not the professional at the center of service delivery. Chapter 4 recognizes the importance of legislation in understanding past and current services to people with disabilities.

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